rookery

Signification (Anglais)

1. A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
2. (broadly) A crowded tenement.
3. (British, broadly, historical) A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
4. (obsolete, slang) That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.

Concepts

rookerie

caverne

nid

ruche

toile

gîte

repaire

antre

colonie de phoques

Synonymes

nest

colony

hive

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

haunt

herd

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

leash

mob

murder

mustering

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

pounce

pride

raft

rout

row

school

🏫

shack

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

slum

sounder

span

string

🪢

stud

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

wedge

harras

breeding ground

clowder

breeding place

communal nest

murmuration

hirsel

army

cete

ascension

band

Traductions

Liegeplatz

Meute

Rotte

Rudel

Schafherde

Schule

🏫

Schwarm

Étymologie (Anglais)

From rook + -ery, 1725.