Den
[den] or [dɛn]
Definition
(noun.) a room that is comfortable and secluded.
(noun.) a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts.
Typist: Sonia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.
(n.) A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.
(n.) Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.
(n.) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a den.
Typist: Sadie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cavern, cave.[2]. Haunt, retreat, resort, place of resort, place much frequented.
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Definition
n. (obs.) for good-e'en good-even.
n. the hollow lair of a wild beast: a kind of pit a cave: a haunt of vice or misery: (coll.) a private retreat for work: (prov.) a narrow valley.—v.i. to retire to a den.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A cavity.
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Examples
- We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Den Uncle Peter mus'n't sit in it, cause he al'ays hitches when he gets a singing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But den I most pay for dese sight too. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She lured me to leave this den and follow her forth into dew, coolness, and glory. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What de devil you here for, den? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Permit Mrs. Leo Hunter, Sir, to have the gratification of seeing you at the Den. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He lives in a den which he digs for himself in the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They fancy some foul, obscure den, some horrible _Tartarus informis, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Von vare fine orishinal of dis, von fine copee of dat, an dis ting, an oter ting, and I den vos pay agen: an ven I go in, dese ting are all exécrable! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She was a baby den,--couldn't but jist stand. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here, as in a lion's den, Undevoured we still remain, Pass secure the watery flood, Hanging on the arm of God. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now, what in the world is Mr. James Wilder doing in that den at this hour of night, and who is the companion who comes to meet him there? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She liveth, answered Isaac; but it is as Daniel, who was called Beltheshazzar, even when within the den of the lions. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Yet this is not consolation for you, my Justine, unless indeed that you may glory in escaping from so miserable a den. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice, and inhabit caves and dens, where no man would venture to intrude? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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