Meaning & use
rookery
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a colony of breeding birds, such as rooks, penguins, or other seabirds; historically, a crowded slum area.
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Thousands of penguins gathered in the rookery to raise their chicks.
The Victorian novel describes a notorious London rookery crowded with the city's poorest residents.
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Rookery originally referred to a colony of rooks, a type of crow, later extending to other colonial birds and, in 19th-century usage, to overcrowded slum neighborhoods.
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