rooster
/ˈɹustɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
American usage; Obsolete; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt."
- "The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird."
- "Chalk a circle for a rooster."
- "The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants."
- "Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators."
- "In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹustɚ/
- British English: /ˈɹuːstə/