den
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
Noun 4 meanings
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
“a den of robbers”
A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
“a den of vice”
A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
“Near-synonyms: family room, sunroom, Florida room, Arizona room, rec room, playroom”
Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
“Our little girls love using bedsheets and other stuff around the house to make dens in the living room and pretending they're on adventures.”
Verb 2 meanings
To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
Of an animal, to use as a den; to take up residence in.
Etymology
From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”).
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DEN at a glance
DEN has 3 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (D 2 + E 1 + N 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,895 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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