roister
roist·er/ˈɹɔɪstɚ/verb
roister is a verb meaning “To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-I-S-T-E-R and has 2 syllables (roist·er), and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does roister mean?
verb
- 1
To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.
- 2
To walk with a swaying motion.
noun
- 1
archaicA roisterer.
- 2
archaicA session of noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.
The servants went out on the roister after getting paid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce roister?
- UK /ˈɹɔɪstə/
- US /ˈɹɔɪstɚ/
Roister has 2 syllables, split roist·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-roister.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of roister
- roisters present, singular, he/she/it
- roistering participle, present
- roistered participle, past
- royster
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is roister?
Roister appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does roister come from?
From Old French rustre, from Latin rusticus. Doublet of rustic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).