English Dictionary

rookery

名詞

広義 イギリス英語 歴史的 廃用 俗語

A colony of breeding birds or other animals. / (by extension) A crowded tenement. / (Britain, historical) A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.

日本語の意味

（動物、特に鳥などの）繁殖群落、巣場 / （派生的な意味として）密集した集合住宅地 / （英国での歴史的な用法）犯罪者が集う地区

The researchers set up cameras near the rookery to monitor the nesting habits of the seabirds.

研究者たちは、海鳥の営巣習性を観察するため、営巣地の近くにカメラを設置した。

意味（1）

A colony of breeding birds or other animals.

In winter rooks roost together in large numbers, and the roost may or may not be a rookery, but almost daily the local residents pay visits to the nesting trees, and about this time often begin playing at nest-building.

意味（2）

(by extension) A crowded tenement.

Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.

意味（3）

(Britain, historical) A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.

The Flower and Dean St rookery had been home to many of those who lived at least partly by street crime.

意味（4）

(military, slang, obsolete) That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.

rookeries （ plural ）