roost Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
  2. noun a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
  3. verb sit, as on a branch
    perch; rest.
    • The birds perched high in the tree
  4. verb settle down or stay, as if on a roost

WordNet

Roost noun
Definitions
  1. Roast. Obs. Chaucer.
Roost transitive verb
Definitions
  1. See Roust, v. t.
Roost noun
Etymology
AS. hrost; akin to OD. roest roost, roesten to roost, and probably to E. roof. Cf. Roof.
Definitions
  1. The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
    He clapped his wings upon his roost. Dryden.
  2. A collection of fowls roosting together.
Roost intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Roosted; present participle & verbal noun Roosting
Definitions
  1. To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch. Wordsworth.
  2. Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
    O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there. Herbert.

Webster 1913