roostとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from 古期英語 hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan.

Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

名詞

roost (複数形 roosts)

1. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest または a branch).
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.

2. A group of birds roosting together.
3. A bedroom
4. (Scotland) The inner roof of a cottage.

派生語

• rule the roost

動詞

roost (三人称単数 現在形 roosts, 現在分詞 roosting, 過去形および過去分詞形 roosted)

1. (intransitive, of birds または bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
2. (figuratively) to spend the night
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The UPS package centre for central London, a brief walk from Kentish Town tube station, holds a below-ground bay in which 170 vans roost every night.

参考

• the chickens come home to roost