den

CEFRB1

/ˈdɛn/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The hidden home of a wild animal.

  2. 02

    noun

    A comfortable private room in a house.

Examples

  • The world is a den of crazies.

  • They're either in the shed or in the den.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.

  2. A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • Daniel was put into the lions’ den.

  • a den of robbers

  • a den of vice

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).