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(ruːst)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense roosts, present participle roosting, past tense, past participle roosted
1. countable noun
A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.
2. verb
When birds or bats roost somewhere, they rest or sleep there.
The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs. [VERB preposition/adverb]
3. 
See come home to roost
4. 
See rule the roost

roost in British English

(ruːst)
noun
1. 
a place, perch, branch, etc, where birds, esp domestic fowl, rest or sleep
2. 
a temporary place to rest or stay
3.  rule the roost
verb (intransitive)
4. 
to rest or sleep on a roost
5. 
to settle down or stay
6.  come home to roost
Word origin
Old English hrōst; related to Old Saxon hrost loft, German Rost grid

Roost in British English

(ruːst)
noun
the Roost
Word origin
C16: from Old Norse röst

roost in American English

(rust)
noun
1. 
a perch on which birds, esp. domestic fowls, can rest or sleep
2. 
a place with perches for birds
3. 
a place for resting, sleeping, etc.
verb intransitive
4. 
to rest, sit, sleep, etc. on a perch
5. 
to stay or settle down, as for the night
Idioms:
come home to roost
rule the roost
Word origin
ME < OE hrost, akin to MDu roest < IE base *kred-, timberwork > OSlav krada, woodpile, Goth hrōt, roof

More idioms containing
roost

come home to roost
rule the roost

Examples of 'roost' in a sentence
roost

Those chickens are now coming home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Sit in judgment on whole of society Now those judicial chickens are coming home to roost.
The Sun (2016)
But I guess this is what they call chickens coming home to roost.
The Sun (2016)
These liabilities are still coming home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The chickens are now coming home to roost.
The Sun (2014)
In these troubled times will his chickens come home to roost?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
His chickens have come home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They stay on tree trunks to roost and nest.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The great flocks of starlings going to roost together have now gone from the sky.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now there is nowhere for birds to roost and no wood from which to make fishing boats.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In daytime they roost on a branch, their eyes closed.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Those chickens are coming home to roost, of which more in a moment.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Chickens are coming home to roost and the problem won't go away.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Birds come home to roost But back to the bird list.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
After years of frenzied lending, their excesses came home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Although bats roost upside down, they are incapable of hovering in this position.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
AND so the chickens came home to roost.
The Sun (2011)
But when the pressure rose, the number of insects declined dramatically and hardly any bats left their roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They forage in bluebell woods by day and roost in trees at night, protected from predators by a pair of collie dogs.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A myopic approach was taken all those years ago, and the chickens have come home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It was the new, assertive influence of the sixties which saw the first signs that the chickens of irregular warfare might come home to roost.
Geraghty, Tony The Bullet Catchers (1989)
Wild turkeys, at least, have to fly up trees to roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
With so many judgments on human rights going against the Government recently, the chickens are coming home to roost.
The Sun (2008)
But politicians should be wary about calling for another's resignation - it always seems to come home to roost.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They have been caught in nets thrown over their roost trees and kept alive, injured or not, to be sold as fresh food.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)

In other languages
roost

British English: roost NOUN
A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.
Something disturbed the bird on its roost.
  • American English: roost
  • Brazilian Portuguese: poleiro
  • Chinese: 栖息处
  • European Spanish: percha
  • French: perchoir
  • German: Stange
  • Italian: posatoio
  • Japanese: ねぐら
  • Korean: > 보금자리새들의
  • European Portuguese: poleiro
  • Latin American Spanish: percha
British English: roost VERB
When birds or bats roost somewhere, they rest or sleep there.
The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.
  • American English: roost
  • Brazilian Portuguese: empoleirar-se
  • Chinese: 栖息
  • European Spanish: posarse
  • French: se percher
  • German: sich niederlassen
  • Italian: appollaiarsi
  • Japanese: ねぐらにする
  • Korean: 보금자리에 들다
  • European Portuguese: empoleirar-se
  • Latin American Spanish: posarse
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