ROOSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rooster mean? 

• ROOSTER (noun)
  The noun ROOSTER has 1 sense:

1. adult male chicken

  Familiarity information: ROOSTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adult male chicken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cock; rooster

Hypernyms ("rooster" is a kind of...):

chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rooster"):

cockerel (a young domestic cock; not older than one year)

 Context examples 

“I was a fool not to know that a little rooster may be the gamest. I believe that this man is indeed a leader whom we may follow.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. Martin of Tours! shouted the fat knight, his wrath all changed in an instant to joy, if it is not my dear little game rooster of the Garonne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last the fat man seemed to weary of it, for he set to work quietly upon his meal, while his opponent, as proud as the rooster who is left unchallenged upon the midden, crowed away in a last long burst of quotation and deduction.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)