Usually means: Breeding colony for birds, seals.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word rookery:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rookery: Merriam-Webster
  2. rookery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rookery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rookery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rookery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rookery, rookery: Wordnik
  7. rookery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rookery: Wiktionary
  9. rookery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rookery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rookery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rookery: Dictionary.com
  13. Rookery (disambiguation), Rookery (slum), Rookery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Rookery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rookery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. rookery: Rhymezone
  17. Rookery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rookery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. rookery: FreeDictionary.org
  20. rookery: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. rookery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. rookery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Rookery: World Wide Words
  24. Rookery: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rookery: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rookery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A crowded tenement.
▸ noun:  (British, historical, by extension) A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
▸ noun:  (military, slang, obsolete) That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.

Similar:
rooklet, roost, parliament, rook, broodling, rooster, roostmate, squab, brood, roding, more...

Opposite:
desert, wilderness, wasteland

Types:
bird colony, heronry, lair, warren, wicket, more...

Phrases:
Rookery Building, rookery person, rookery unit, more...

Adjectives:
old, large, great, whole, small, blue, ancient, big, distant, famous, dark



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Similar:
rooklet, roost, parliament, rook, broodling, rooster, roostmate, squab, brood, roding, more...

Opposite:
desert, wilderness, wasteland

Types:
bird colony, heronry, lair, warren, wicket, more...

Phrases:
Rookery Building, rookery person, rookery unit, more...

Adjectives:
old, large, great, whole, small, blue, ancient, big, distant, famous, dark



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