rookery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was a rookery which had never been raided by the hunters, and in consequence the seals were mild-tempered and at the same time unafraid."
- "In winter rooks roost together in large numbers, and the roost may or may not be a rookery, but almost daily the local residents pay visits to the nesting trees, and about this time often begin playing at nest-building."
- "There are six rookeries either side of Haddiscoe Island, which average 283 nests each."
- "Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery."
- "Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants."
- "The squares near Ladbroke Grove station ... never managed to attract the kind of people for which they were designed and sank rapidly into multiple occupation, becoming almost as bad as the nearby rookeries of north-west Kensington."
Etymology
From rook + -ery, 1725.