nest – English noun declension

English noun forms of nest

Noun: nest
Singularnest
Pluralnests

Sample Sentences

  • a nest of thieves
  • That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
  • Capt. Kirby and I concluding it might be of great Service to the Eaſt-India Company to deſtroy such a Neſt of Rogues, were ready to ſail for that Purpoſe […] [1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Capt. Edward England, and His Crew. [A Letter from Captain Makra, dated at Bombay, Nov. 16, 1720.]”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 119:]
  • Miss Carpenter told me that a short time previously some Bow Street constables had been sent down to this place to ferret out a crime which had been committed there, and that they reported there was not in all London such a nest of wickedness as they had explored. [1895, Frances Power Cobbe, chapter 10, in Life of Frances Power Cobbe, volume 1, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 254:]
  • I am aspiring to leave the nest.
  • I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.
  • a machine gun nest
  • Subroutine 4 cannot jump out of the subroutine nest in one step. Each return address must be popped from the stack in the order in which it was pushed onto the stack. [1981, Donnamaie E. White, Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALU's, Garland STPM Press, →ISBN, page 49:]
  • Our analysis to this point has assumed that in a loop nest, we are only parallelizing a single loop. [1993 August, Bwolen Yang et al., "Do&Merge: Integrating Parallel Loops and Reductions", in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (workshop proceedings), Springer (1994), page 178]

Etymology

From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit). See: Middle English Nouns 'nest', Old English Nouns 'nest', English Nouns 'nether', English Nouns 'sit'.

Verbs referencing "nest"

Latin Nouns nidus, Russian Nouns гнездо, Russian Nouns ниша.