Noun: den
Sample Sentences
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a den of robbers
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Daniel was put into the lions’ den.
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a den of vice
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an opium den; a gambling den
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Lying in a den in Bombay
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With a slack jaw and not much to say [1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert, “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work:]
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Near-synonyms: family room, sunroom, Florida room, Arizona room, rec room, playroom
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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.
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I have made several visits of late to the Den of Rubislaw [1806, Sir William Forbes, An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D., including many of his Original Letters:]
Nouns inflected like den
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”). See: Middle English Nouns '
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Tenne'.
Verbs referencing "den"
German Nouns
Tenne.