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Definition: Rookery |
RookeryNoun1. A breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rookery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rookery (3 syl.). Any low neighbourhood frequented by thieves and vagabonds. A person fleeced or liable to be fleeced is a pigeon, but those who prey upon these "gulls" are called rooks. "The demolition of rookeries has not proved an efficient remedy for overcrowding."- A. Egmont Hake: Free Trade in Capital, chap. xv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah. |
Uncleanness | Sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rookery |
| English words defined with "rookery": heronry ♦ Penguinery ♦ Rookeries. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rookery Nook (1953) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Looking toward Tolstoi Rookery on St. Paul Island. F&WS 10,010. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Palata Rookery, Copper Island, Alaska. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Adelie Penguins at a rookery. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | What appears to be a rock-strewn beach is in fact a fur-seal rookery. Thousands of fur-seals on a St. Paul beach. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Seal Island chinstrap penguin rookery. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | An Adelie Penguin rookery on the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | A tern rookery on Helens Reef. Credit: Small World. |
 | A mixed rookery of boobies and terns. Credit: Small World. |  | Great Blue Heron on nest in a rookery in the prairie pothole region of eastern South Dakota. Credit: Don Poggensee. |
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| Author | Quotation |
V. S. Pritchett | The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees. |
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| "Rookery" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "Rookery" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 53.85% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 46.15% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "rookery": seal-rookery. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rookery | 24 |
golf rookery | 5 |
course golf rookery | 4 |
chicago rookery | 4 |
bay rookery | 4 |
rookery hall | 3 |
hotel rookery london | 2 |
marco rookery | 2 |
building rookery | 2 |
heron rookery | 2 |
rookery hotel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rookery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Koloni Sorrash, Koloni Kafshësh, Banesë E Mbipopulluar. (various references) | |
Arabic | موضع توالد الغربان, سرب غربان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ято 'рани, Колония От Пингвини, Колония От Тюлени, Място Където Се 'ъдят 'рани, Бедняшки Къщички. (various references) | |
Czech | Hnízdištì Ptákù. (various references) | |
French | Colonie De Freux, Colonie. (various references) | |
German | Krähenkolonie. (various references) | |
Greek | ίορακοφωλιά, Φωλιά ίορώνων, αλιόσπιτο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Varjútanya, túlzsúfolt szegénynegyed, szegénynegyed (slums), rozzant bérkaszárnya, nyomortanya (hovel). (various references) | |
Italian | Gruppo D'alberi Con Nidi Di Corvi. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 巣 (beehive, breeding place, cobweb, nest). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | す (beehive, breeding place, cobweb, den, haunt, nest, sandbank, vinegar). (various references) | |
Manx | boayl troghan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ookeryray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | viveiro de gralhas, paradieiros, espeluncas. (various references) | |
Romanian | Stol De Ciori, Mahala (district, outskirts, slum, suburb), Cuib De Hoţi (haunt, nest of robbers, set up), Colonie (colony, dependency, Eau de cologne, settlement), şandrama (booth). (various references) | |
Russian | лежбище, Лежбище, "рачовник, "рач. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gnezdo vrane gakuše. (various references) | |
Spanish | Colonia De Grajos. (various references) | |
Swedish | Tjuvnäste. (various references) | |
Thai | ฝูงกา. (various references) | |
Turkish | Kenar Mahalle (skirt, slum, slums, suburb), Kargaların Toplu Yuva Yaptıkları Yer, Kümes Gibi Bina, Fukara Yatağı, Ekinkargaları Kolonisi, Çok Aileli Harap Bina. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Пташиний Базар, "айворонник. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xóm nh chen chúc lụp xụp, lùm cây có nhiều tổ quạ, bầy quạ bãi biển có nhiều chim cụt, bầy chim cụt, bầy chó biển xóm nghèo, bãi biển có nhiều chó biển. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "rookery": crookery. (additional references) | |
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"Rookery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boukary, ookey, rabkory, Roherrim, Rokeby, rokey, Rokuro, romeri, roockey, roofery, rooke, rooker, Rookley, Rukiya. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "rookery" (pronounced 'Rook"er*y'): Acceleratory, Antislavery, Apery, Archery, Ashery, Asseveratory, Averpenny, Babery, Baboonery, Bakery, Barkery, Belligerently, Bewitchery, bindery, Bleachery, Bloomery, Boilery, botcherly, botchery, Branchery, Bravery, Brewery, Bribery, Broidery, Buffoonery, Butcherly, Butchery, Cajolery, Chafery, Chicanery, Cholericly, Cinerary, Cleverly, Clouterly, Clownery, Coalery, Cocoonery, Collaterally, Commandery, Congeneracy, Considerably, Consideringly, Cookery, Covertly, Creamery, Crockery, Cutchery, Deanery, Debauchery, Degeneracy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-o-o-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: kerry, rooky. | |
-3 letters: kore, oyer, rook, ryke, yerk, yoke, yore. | |
-4 letters: err, key, kor, oke, ore, roe, rye, yok. | |
-5 letters: er, oe, or, oy, re, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-o-o-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: crookery. | |
+3 letters: prokaryote. | |
+4 letters: journeywork, prokaryotes. | |
+5 letters: heterokaryon, journeyworks. | |
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