roost
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- perch part meronym
Related & opposite
- perch derivation
Sense 2 verb
sit, as on a branch
The birds perched high in the tree
Types & categories
- sit hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
Types & categories
- perch hypernym
Related & opposite
- perch derivation
Sense 4 verb
settle down or stay, as if on a roost
Types & categories
- take root hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | perch |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | perch |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | shelter |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | henroost |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | Insessores |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | perch |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rest |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | roost |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | roost |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | percher |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sit |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | perch |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | perch |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | take root |