perch
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4.1
- noun
- /pɜrʧ/
:
percha
- Claude descended from his perch to intercept the Abbe before the start of the meal.
- a lofty perch
Well, Ian does have a perch in which he watches Kanye's house with binoculars.
- Well, Ian does have a perch in which he watches Kanye's house with binoculars.
- So there's going to be, you know, few ideal perches.
- It trembled on its perch in an agony of hesitation, not knowing whether to fly or not.
- It was the humiliation that I had dismissed all the criticism from a very haughty perch.
- Who fucking says that thirteen Americans were killed and you're going to speak like that and say that everything was done right, that you couldn't see any fucking chaos from your perch?
- Taking the higher perches feels principal, eccentric, stupid and national as ham.
- But since our ears are only passers by on this old world which aerates the brain as a twirls round on its spiny top, they had a perch for occasional wisps.
Examples
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This is Kiki's perch, so she can see everything that's out there.
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The Alumni parade has just begun, and we're here to tell you something of the sights and sounds as we see them from our perch above the stage.
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And I can tell you just from my perch, it's all very hard.
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So he joined them, and they flew up to perch on his head.
Fiction book (1992) -
I have taken my perch atop the giant clock.
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If it is the great horned owl, he can probably see you from his perch, and is telling the night how beautiful you are.
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The view looking out at sunset from our newfound perch is marvelous on this fine evening.
Academic text (2008) -
JUNIOR : For as long as can be remembered, storks delivered babies from their perch on Stork Mountain.
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The falcon pushed off its perch, swooped, thumped down, and clutched my fist.
Fiction book (1993) -
The bird found a comfortable perch on the branch high above the ground.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
7.9
To defeat the person or team at the top and take their place
Compounds
- US
1
6.6
A small silvery freshwater fish found in streams in eastern North America, often caught for food or sport
- US
1
5.1
A freshwater fish with a yellow body and dark stripes, caught for food and sport
- Indian
A small freshwater fish that can breathe air and move on land using its pointed fins
A fresh water fish with a green body and red fins found in Europe and northern Asia
A small bright fish from the Pacific coast of North America with shiny colorful scales
How High
Surface Forms
Etymology
Perch (high place) comes from an old word pertica (later perche) meaning 'pole' or 'stick', because birds and people would sit on poles, and so a 'perch' is a place to sit up high.