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Definition of "rookeries" [rookeries]

  • Plural form of rookery. (noun)

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Use "rookeries" in a sentence
  • "The places where large numbers of them gather together during the breeding season are known as rookeries!"
  • "The area's dank, unsanitary alleys and its slum housing — known as "rookeries" — were riddled with malnutrition and disease, a plight to which most wealthy Londoners had previously been oblivious."
  • "I have been in many of these "rookeries" and know that the warden who undertakes to guard one of them takes his life in his hand."