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rooster

  • noun
  • roo͞'stər

A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.

Other meanings

  1. A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.

  2. A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

A kind of

  • chicken

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “rooster” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.