rookery

Meaning

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

Synonyms

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

Etymology

From rook + -ery, 1725.