rookery

noun

A place where large numbers of rooks or certain seabirds or marine animals, such as penguins or seals, nest or breed.

noun

A colony of such animals.

noun

A crowded and dilapidated tenement or area.

noun

A place where rooks congregate to breed.

noun

The rooks that breed in a rookery, collectively.

noun

A place where birds or other animals resort in great numbers to breed.

noun

A cluster of mean tenements inhabited by people of the lowest class; a resort of thieves, tramps, ruffians, and the like.

noun

A brothel.

noun

A disturbance; a row.