rooster
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈruːstər/
- US
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gallo
- The rooster strutted across the yard, showing off his vibrant feathers.
- the rooster crows
- a red rooster
- the rooster stands
I, I live in this old farmhouse in Tuscany and I hear the Roosters off in the distance and I hear these dogs barking.
- I, I live in this old farmhouse in Tuscany and I hear the Roosters off in the distance and I hear these dogs barking.
- Did did you hear that there is literally a rooster cockadoodly doodling somewhere beyond this bathroom wall?
- So I say, OK, the tide is listening to the moon and and not to the rooster crow.
- He no in like we're going down to Tijuana and I'm just picturing like how they have the cock fights, you know, like like the Roosters go out and everybody bets.
- And so Christophe Waltrus says to the rooster, he's like, I will see you in hell.
- And he addresses the rooster as a Aztec chief in a CAF Dan of feathers.
- Instead the rooster is tied to a post while the players throw weighted sticks known as cock steals at the poor bird until it dies.
Examples
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Sounds of thunder rumbled over the mountain, and the roosters crowed in the pale morning light.
Fiction book (1993) -
Every morning, the rooster crows at dawn, waking up everyone on the farm.
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A rooster sits on the peak of a roof.
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It's hard to make a rooster stop crowing once the sun has risen.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mamadu got up from his bed as the rooster was still crowing.
Academic text (1995) -
We have a complaint from one of your neighbors about a rooster crowing in the mornings.
Fiction book (1990) -
When we were recently on a trip to Maui, there was a rooster in front of Walgreens that I legit almost tripped over.
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Four brooding hens and a rooster pecked around under the young mulberry tree.
Fiction book (1994) -
He raised a beautiful rooster that won first prize at the county fair.
Synonyms
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3.7
An adult male bird, especially a chicken
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8.6
A male chicken often used in French cooking for slow stews
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9.9
A rooster bred and trained to fight other roosters
A rooster in old stories and fables
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Etymology
Rooster comes from the word roost, which means 'a place where birds rest', plus the ending -er that means 'one who'. So a rooster is literally 'one who roosts', the bird that sits on the roost and crows, which explains its name.