Associations to the word «Rookery»

Wiktionary

ROOKERY, noun. A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
ROOKERY, noun. A crowded tenement.
ROOKERY, noun. (British) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.

Dictionary definition

ROOKERY, noun. A breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope