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noun

the lair or shelter of a wild animal, especially a predatory mammal.

a room, often secluded, in a house or apartment, designed to provide a quiet, comfortable, and informal atmosphere for conversation, reading, writing, etc.

a cave used as a place of shelter or concealment.

a squalid or vile abode or place: dens of misery.

one of the units of a cub scout pack, analogous to a patrol in the Boy Scouts.

verb (used with object)

to drive or pursue (an animal) into its den.

to kill (an animal) inside its den.

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verb (used without object)

to live in or as if in a den.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English denn; compare early Dutch denne floor, cave, den, German Tenne floor

Example Sentences

On one side of the living area, a movable wall will set off a den that can double as a guest room.

Bloodstained from feeding, an adult female is greeted on her return to the den by two cubs that may or may not be her own.

When it was victorious, the kraken would drag the ichthyosaur's corpse back to its den for a feast.

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On one side of the living area, a movable wall will set off a den that can double as a guest room.

Bloodstained from feeding, an adult female is greeted on her return to the den by two cubs that may or may not be her own.

When it was victorious, the kraken would drag the ichthyosaur's corpse back to its den for a feast.

Ferebee stomps through dense thornbushes and peeks under the roots of a fallen tree at a coyote den.

It would also make this the ultimate nerd's gaming den.

In lean years the pups leave the den earlier, to hunt on their own in a land where success is never a sure thing.

After a female red fox gives birth, she must stay in her den in order to feed her young and keep them warm.

He or she must, however, have the bark of a drill sergeant and the team building skills of a den mother.

In spring, females den and give birth to litters of three to twelve pups.

Check out what quality time with dad means in the lion's den.

In northern locations females den in the autumn, while in tropical climes the breeding season may not be fixed.

On her laptop, in a cabin in the backcountry, she watches wolf pups coming out of their den for the first time.

There is a den not too far away atop a timbered knoll sheltered by overhanging boughs.

Allen says it is not unusual to see ski tracks going right over a sleeping bear's den in the middle of winter.

About the size of a big iguana, a polar dinosaur snuggles into a riverbank den in an artist's conception.

After their medical check, the panther kittens are returned to their den.

As the cold swoops in, the fattened bear waddles into a den among rocks or one it dug out among tree roots.

My argument was conceived in my den before dawn in a stream of consciousness rather than streaming video.

The speakers emit enough sound to fill any bedroom or den.

When they got home, my mom took me into the den and told me what happened.

Congress as a whole is a den of corruption and political malfeasance.

Finding a den with a female who had cubs took a long time, but it was great to finally find one.

We spent well over an hour here building our den and finding leaves and feathers to decorate.

Turns out, the electrician moved the light switches for the den into the panic room, which is out of sight of the den.

Quickly realizing it has been fooled, the spider goes back into its den.

Researchers hastily enter a den to tag a two-month-old cub before the mother returns.

From their angry snarls he knew they were not pleased to see an intruder in their den.

They find a cozy den to curl up in, and sleep the cold months away--all without waking up to eat.

Young otters remain in the den for a month but grow up quickly.

The lynx could not have been adopted by a more tenacious and dedicated den mother.

Females den in the snow or under similar cover to give birth to two or three young each late winter or early spring.

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World English Dictionary

den (dɛn)

—n
1.	the habitat or retreat of a lion or similar wild animal; lair
2.	a small or secluded room in a home, often used for carrying on a hobby
3.	a squalid or wretched room or retreat
4.	a site or haunt: a den of vice
5.	(Scot) a small wooded valley; dingle
6.	dialect (Scot), (Northern English) a place of sanctuary in certain catching games; home or base

—vb , dens, denning, denned
7.	(intr) to live in or as if in a den

[Old English denn; related to Old High German tenni threshing floor, early Dutch denne low ground, den, cave]

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Word Origin & History

den

O.E. denn "wild animal's lair," from P.Gmc. *danjan. Sense of "small room" is 1771, originally colloquial.

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Bible Dictionary

Den definition

a lair of wild beasts (Ps. 10:9; 104:22; Job 37:8); the hole of a venomous reptile (Isa. 11:8); a recess for secrecy "in dens and caves of the earth" (Heb. 11:38); a resort of thieves (Matt. 21:13; Mark 11:17). Daniel was cast into "the den of lions" (Dan. 6:16, 17). Some recent discoveries among the ruins of Babylon have brought to light the fact that the practice of punishing offenders against the law by throwing them into a den of lions was common.

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