What is another word for perched?

Pronunciation: [pˈɜːt͡ʃt] (IPA)

Perched is a word used to describe an object or animal which is placed in a high location, often stationary and balanced. There are several synonyms for perched, such as roosting, settled, nested, ensconced, or anchored. Roosting is often used to describe birds settling in a place to rest, such as on a tree branch or telephone wire. Settled is used to describe an object that is sitting comfortably and balanced in an elevated position, like a book on a shelf. Nested and ensconced imply that the object being described has settled in a secure and protected location, like a bird's nest or a person's favorite chair. Anchored typically means something is fixed in a location and not easily moved, similar to a boat anchored in a harbor.

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Usage examples for Perched

Within a mile of Antrim they saw a cottage, perched on a high bluff by the roadside.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
His position was impregnable to the dogs, but, thus perched, he was a splendid mark for E-tuk-i-shook.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Another moment young Dillard came dragging into the room with his hands in his pockets, glanced about for a chair, and finding none, perched his bulk upon the end of the table, and sighed.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey

Famous quotes with Perched

  • Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
    Roald Dahl
  • I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
    Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
    Victor Hugo
  • He [Welles] was an onlooker at the clumsy, poignant suicide of "The Man on the Ledge," which took place in New York in 1938, when a boy perched for fourteen hours on a window-sill of the Gotham Hotel before plunging into the street. "I stood in the crowd outside for a long time," Welles says pensively, "and wanted to make a film of it all. But they tell me that in the Hollywood version of the film they gave the boy a for what he did. That's crazy. It's the crowd that needs explaining."
    Orson Welles
  • MIRRORMENT Birds are flowers flying and flowers perched birds.
    A. R. Ammons

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