den


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
den/den/
noun
  • 1 a wild animal's lair or habitation.
  • 2 informal a person's private room.
  • 3 a place where people meet secretly or illicitly: an opium den.
verb (dens, denning, denned) (of an animal) live in or retreat to a den.
– origin OE denn, of Gmc origin.
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