Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abode or haunt of owls.
- noun An owlish or owl-like character or habit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An abode or a haunt of owls.
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- noun zoology An
abode or ahaunt ofowls .
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Examples
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Grab brooms from the flying - key room, they'll get you out of the trapdoor and past Fluffy -- go straight to the owlery and send Hedwig to Dumbledore, we need him.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997
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"I brought Ron round -- that took a while -- and we were dashing up to the owlery to contact Dumbledore when we met him in the entrance hall -- he already knew -- he just said, 'Harry's gone after him, hasn't he?' and hurtled off to the third floor."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997
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She sometimes flew in to nibble his ear and have a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the owlery with the other school owls.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997
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Very well: the "light" is more and more withdrawn; and for some time you have a general dusk, very favorable for catching mice; and the opulent owlery is very "happy," and well-off at its banker's; -- and furthermore, by due sequence, infallible as the foundations of the Universe and Nature's oldest law, the light _returns_ on you, condensed, this time, into _lightning_, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in!
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M'Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I realized that I didn't want to cease my 'night-owlery' because I didn't want to … er, stop being young.
Through The Illusion 2008
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I realized that I didn't want to cease my 'night-owlery' because I didn't want to … er, stop being young.
Through The Illusion 2008
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I realized that I didn't want to cease my 'night-owlery' because I didn't want to … er, stop being young.
Through The Illusion 2008
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I realized that I didn't want to cease my 'night-owlery' because I didn't want to … er, stop being young.
Through The Illusion 2008
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Go straight to the owlery and send Hedwig to Dumbledore, right? "
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997
frogapplause commented on the word owlery
This is a difficult word to pronounce.
May 10, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word owlery
How about a growlery? Or, following Milne, a Wolery?
May 10, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word owlery
Would a woodchuck woolery work?
*will be back in two and two*
*makes two-fingered hand gesture*
May 10, 2010
leaden commented on the word owlery
Now try “sixth owlery squirrel”.
October 15, 2011