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Definition: Rooster |
RoosterNoun1. Adult male chicken. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rooster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
Note: Rooster \Roost"er\, noun. The male of the domestic fowl; cock. [United States]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a rooster, foretells that you will be very successful and rise to prominence, but you will allow yourself to become conceited over your fortunate rise. To see roosters fighting, foretells altercations and rivals. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rooster is the US-centric term for a male chicken (the female is a hen), reputedly so named because it roosts over clutches of eggs. In fact, "roosting" is the action of perching aloft and is done by both sexes. The original name, still in use in most of the English speaking world, is "cock" (or "cockerel" if under one year old), which may have been dropped by Americans for prudish reasons.
The Rooster is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits. See also: Rooster (Zodiac).
A rooster from the Barred Plymouth Rock breed, caught in the act of crowing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rooster."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The rooster is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits.People who have this Chinese sign are:
See also: Rooster
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rooster (Zodiac)."
Synonym: RoosterSynonym: cock (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Bird; poultry, fowl, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon. |
Nobility | Personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster; magni nominis umbra; " every inch a king ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rooster |
| English words defined with "rooster": lubricious, lustful ♦ prance, prurient ♦ ruffle ♦ salacious, sashay, sickle feather, strut, swagger ♦ weathercock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rooster": QUEER ROOSTER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rooster" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (grate, grid, grill, schedule, time-table), Dutch (grate, grid, grill, schedule, timetable, time-table). |
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Screenplays | Uh-huh. And what does a rooster do (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa) The meanest one is Rooster Cogburn, a pitiless man, double tough, fear don't enter into his thinking (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) I'm on the rooster. (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart) Hey, punk-rock rooster at 12 o'clock (That '80s Show; writing credit: Irit Boger) The vet seems to think she becoming a rooster. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile, (DOWN ON THE CORNER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mother Was a Rooster (1962) Beasty Rooster (1962) Raw! Raw! Rooster! (1956) The EGGcited Rooster (1952) Henpecked Rooster (1944) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rooster outside a chicken house. Credit: USDA. |  | Mixed Wildflowers found in the Rooster Comb Research Natural Area on Steens Mountain, in Southeastern Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | Constructing the Rooster Comb section of the Steens Mountain Back Country Byway. (ca. early 1960's). Credit: Unknown. |  | Fall colors in Little Indian Creek area from Rooster Comb area at Steens Mountain. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Heavy road construction or road maintenance on the Rooster Comb section of the Steens Loop Back Country Byway. Credit: Unknown. |  | A view from the south rim of the Little Blitzen Gorge looking east up the canyon, just north of the Rooster Comb area. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Early snows form a blanket over high Steens. View up Big Indian Gorge from Rooster Comb Area. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | Little Indian Canyon and Ankle Mountain from Rooster Comb grade on Steens Mountain. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | Early spring snow drift at Rooster Comb view point with a view up Little Blitzen Canyon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | Mountain biking in the Rooster Comb area along Big Indian Gorge on Steens Mountain back country byway. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
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| "Rooster in the sky" by Ary Post Commentary: "At the top of the St.James in Dieppe." | "Rooster" by Radek Siechowicz Commentary: "Rooster." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Chickens clucking; rooster crowing. | | Rooster cock-a-doodle-doo; cock crow. |
| Rooster cock-a-doodle-doo; cock crow. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Claudius Galen | Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster. |
Giovanni Boccaccio | While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. |
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| "Rooster" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Rooster" is used about 20 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 (singular) | 85% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "rooster": gilded rooster. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "rooster": hell-rooster. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rooster | 1,676 | rooster dinnerware | 27 |
rooster picture | 171 | hen rooster | 27 |
red rooster | 165 | rooster tail | 27 |
fighting rooster | 123 | rooster plate | 26 |
las red rooster vegas | 79 | rooster restaurant | 24 |
richmond rooster | 61 | rooster cogburn | 24 |
rooster rug | 56 | rooster kitchen | 23 |
atomic rooster | 49 | rooster photo | 23 |
game rooster | 42 | rooster clipart | 22 |
auction game rooster | 42 | feathers rooster t | 21 |
ceramic rooster | 39 | sydney rooster | 21 |
hen rooster knife | 36 | fighting picture rooster | 21 |
fabric rooster | 36 | pic rooster | 21 |
chicken and rooster | 35 | rooster chandelier | 20 |
rooster rusty | 32 | country rooster | 20 |
rooster painting | 32 | art clip rooster | 20 |
rooster lamp | 30 | fish rooster | 20 |
bantam rooster | 30 | rooster curtain | 18 |
fight rooster | 29 | rooster print | 18 |
rooster decor | 29 | rock rooster | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rooster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | haan. (various references) | |
Albanian | këndes, gjel (chanticleer, cockerel). (various references) | |
Arabic | شخص مغرور (peacock, smart aleck), شخص متعجرف, ديك (fowl). (various references) | |
Aymara | k'ank'a. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ómahki'tawáakii. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фукльо (whipper-snapper), мъжкият на някой птици, перко, петел (chanticleer). (various references) | |
Chamorro | gayu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雄雞 , 雄鸡, 公雞 . (various references) | |
Czech | kohout (faucet). (various references) | |
Danish | hane (faucet, tap). (various references) | |
Dutch | haan (trigger). (various references) | |
Esperanto | virkoko. (various references) | |
Farsi | خروس(امر.), جوجه خروس (Cockerel), ادم ستیزه جو. (various references) | |
Finnish | kukkopoika (cockerel, young rooster). (various references) | |
French | coq. (various references) | |
Frisian | hoanne. (various references) | |
German | Hahn (chanticleer, cockerel, faucet, hammer, spigot, tap, trigger). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκκορασ, πετεινόσ (shuttle cock), αλέκτωρ (capon, chanticleer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תרנגול (roost), שכוי (insight, mind). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kakas (chanticleer, cocking-piece). (various references) | |
Italian | gallo (bantam, gallic, grouse). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雄鳥 , 雄鶏 , 牡鳥 , 牡鶏 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おんどり. (various references) | |
Korean | 수탉 (Capon). (various references) | |
Manx | kellagh ny giark (barn cock, barnyard cock), kellagh (chanticleer, cock bird, cock of anchor). (various references) | |
Maya | theel. (various references) | |
Papiamen | gai. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oosterray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galo (cock-a-doodle-doo, fowl). (various references) | |
Romanian | cocoş (chanticleer, chicken, cockerel), cântãtor (chanticleer, singer, singing). (various references) | |
Romany | bashnò. (various references) | |
Russian | петух (cock-a-doodle-doo). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pevac (chantry), petao (chantry), kokot. (various references) | |
Shona | jongwe. (various references) | |
Spanish | gallo (boss, chanticleer, dory, expert). (various references) | |
Sranan | kaka (defecate, dung, excrement). (various references) | |
Swahili | jogoo. (various references) | |
Swedish | tupp (chanticleer). (various references) | |
Thai | ไก่ตัวผู้, คนที่หยิ่งยโส. (various references) | |
Turkish | horoz (chanticleer, firing pin, striker). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | забіяка (bantam, bear-cat, blusterer, boco-smasher, cockerel, scrapper, whipster), півень. (various references) | |
Welsh | ceiliog. (various references) | |
Yucatec | t'eel. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bucinis, galli, gallo, gallus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rooster": roosters. (additional references) | |
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"Rooster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Broster, brouster, Goostrey, oroster, rauster, roastee, Rooftec, rooste, Roscher, rosta, rostam, rostar, rosteg, Rostern, rostker, rostor, rouster, ruster, Ruyter, Sooster, zoster. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rooster" (pronounced ruw"ster) |
| 4 | -uw" s t er | booster. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rooters, toreros. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: resort, retros, rooser, rooter, roster, rotors, sorter, torero, torose. | |
-2 letters: retro, roose, roost, roots, roset, rotes, rotor, rotos, sorer, store, tores, toros, torse, torso. | |
-3 letters: eros, errs, erst, oots, ores, orts, rest, rets, roes, root, rose, rote, roto, rots, soot, sore, sort, toes, tore, toro, torr, tors. | |
-4 letters: err, ers, oes, oot, ore, ors. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: redroots, restroom, roosters, roseroot, sororate, troopers. | |
+2 letters: operators, oratories, orometers, overstory, posterior, promoters, prosector, protestor, ratooners, resonator, restrooms, robotries, rooftrees, roseroots, rotatores, sororates, storeroom, toreadors, uprooters. | |
+3 letters: astrologer, astronomer, cocreators, comforters, convertors, correctors, decorators, ergosterol, forecourts, forefronts, forlornest, moderators, nonrioters, outworkers, overstrode, overthrows, personator, posteriors, projectors, pronatores, propretors, prorogates, prosectors, prosecutor, prospector, protectors, protestors, protoderms, recontours, renovators, repository, resonators, resorption, roisterous, servomotor, shorefront, sororities, stertorous, storefront, storerooms, tolerators, tormentors. | |
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