See rule the roost in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "rules the roost",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ruling the roost",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ruled the roost",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ruled the roost",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "rule the roost (third-person singular simple present rules the roost, present participle ruling the roost, simple past and past participle ruled the roost)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English predicates",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Society",
"orig": "en:Society",
"parents": [
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, ch. 3",
"text": "His was biding his time, and patiently looking forward to the days when he himself would sit authoritative at some board, and talk and direct, and rule the roost, while lesser stars sat round and obeyed.\nNote: Some copies have \"rule the roast\" in this passage."
},
{
"ref": "1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 16, in The Freelands:",
"text": "Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004 February 16, Kate Betts, “9 Rei Kawakubo”, in Time:",
"text": "At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:",
"text": "Finn Russell and Owen Farrell kicked two penalties apiece but it was the Scotland stand-off who ruled the roost - despite a ten-minute sin-binning for an attempted trip on England scrum-half Ben Youngs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group."
],
"id": "en-rule_the_roost-en-verb-tkYRRaMn",
"links": [
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"family",
"family"
],
[
"organization",
"organization"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "alpha"
},
{
"word": "call the shots"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "wear the trousers"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "olla kukkona tunkiolla"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozstawiać po kątach"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozstawić po kątach"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "manejar el cotarro"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-rule the roost.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-au-rule_the_roost.ogg/En-au-rule_the_roost.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-au-rule_the_roost.ogg"
}
],
"word": "rule the roost"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "rules the roost",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ruling the roost",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ruled the roost",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ruled the roost",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "rule the roost (third-person singular simple present rules the roost, present participle ruling the roost, simple past and past participle ruled the roost)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "alpha"
},
{
"word": "call the shots"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English predicates",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss",
"en:Society"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, ch. 3",
"text": "His was biding his time, and patiently looking forward to the days when he himself would sit authoritative at some board, and talk and direct, and rule the roost, while lesser stars sat round and obeyed.\nNote: Some copies have \"rule the roast\" in this passage."
},
{
"ref": "1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 16, in The Freelands:",
"text": "Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004 February 16, Kate Betts, “9 Rei Kawakubo”, in Time:",
"text": "At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:",
"text": "Finn Russell and Owen Farrell kicked two penalties apiece but it was the Scotland stand-off who ruled the roost - despite a ten-minute sin-binning for an attempted trip on England scrum-half Ben Youngs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group."
],
"links": [
[
"control",
"control"
],
[
"family",
"family"
],
[
"organization",
"organization"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-rule the roost.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-au-rule_the_roost.ogg/En-au-rule_the_roost.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-au-rule_the_roost.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "wear the trousers"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "olla kukkona tunkiolla"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozstawiać po kątach"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozstawić po kątach"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "manejar el cotarro"
}
],
"word": "rule the roost"
}
Download raw JSONL data for rule the roost meaning in English (3.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.