ROOKERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rookery mean? 

• ROOKERY (noun)
  The noun ROOKERY has 1 sense:

1. a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)

  Familiarity information: ROOKERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOKERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("rookery" is a kind of...):

breeding ground (a place where animals breed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rookery"):

heronry (a breeding ground for herons; a heron rookery)

 Context examples 

A rookery, with every nest a little house, would best convey the idea.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We thought—Mr. Copperfield thought—it was quite a large rookery; but the nests were very old ones, and the birds have deserted them a long while.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It’s a rookery, the kind of a thing I’ve hunted for years.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Another field crossed—a lane threaded—and there were the courtyard walls—the back offices: the house itself, the rookery still hid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The place was a rookery of pterodactyls.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You may remember that day we found the pterodactyl rookery in the swamp—what?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The seals had started on their great southern migration, and the rookery was practically deserted.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)