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View definitions for roosted

roosted

verb as in inhabit

verb as in live

verb as in perch

verb as in rest

verb as in seat

verb as in sojourn

verb as in squat

Strong matches

Weak match

verb as in abide

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Example Sentences

In perfect security around and beneath the Castle walls roosted and nested a perfect colony of sea-birds.

One night twelve hens roosted in an outhouse with a defective latch at John Skehan's farm.

The very old rooster and most of the hens roosted in the apple-trees in the orchard, but some of the hens roosted in other trees.

Sometimes they roosted at night upon the very trees under which our Frenchmen slept.

By day it could be stood upright, and the children roosted on its various steps.

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On this page you'll find 467 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to roosted, such as: locate, occupy, populate, possess, reside, and abide.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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