Noun

• S: (n) perch (support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird))
• S: (n) perch, rod, pole (a linear measure of 16.5 feet)
• part meronym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• domain region
• part holonym
• S: (n) perch, rod, pole (a square rod of land)
• S: (n) perch (an elevated place serving as a seat)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) seat, place (a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)) "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place"
• S: (n) perch (any of numerous fishes of America and Europe)
• S: (n) perch (spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• member holonym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) perch (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes)

Verb

• S: (v) perch, roost, rest (sit, as on a branch) "The birds perched high in the tree"
• S: (v) alight, light, perch (to come to rest, settle) "Misfortune lighted upon him"
• S: (v) perch (cause to perch or sit) "She perched her hat on her head"