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# rookery

«rookery» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of rooks' nests high in the trees, or the place…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (rookeries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rookery is a group of rooks' nests high in the trees, or the place where rooks live together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rookery/#m1)

2) A rookery can also be any noisy, crowded place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rookery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a noisy crowd of birds in the trees, or a busy noisy place

### examples

- The rookery was loud at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rookery/#x1)
- Rooks built their nests in the rookery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rookery/#x2)
- The playground was a rookery at home time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rookery/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rookery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rookery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.