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DEN
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Irregular inflected forms: denned , denning
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A room that is comfortable and secluded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("den" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Holonyms ("den" is a part of...):
abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("den" is a kind of...):
social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("den" is a kind of...):
hiding place (a place suitable for hiding something (such as yourself))
Sense 4
Meaning:
The habitation of wild animals
Synonyms:
den; lair
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("den" is a kind of...):
habitation (the native habitat or home of an animal or plant)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb den
Context examples:
But God helped her, so that she passed safely over them, and then she and the old woman went upstairs, opened the door, and hastened as fast as they could from the murderers’ den.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The landlord was hesitating whether to carry this message or no, when the door of the inner room was flung open, and the stranger bounded out like a panther from its den, his hair bristling and his deformed face convulsed with anger.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was one of the many curious fashions which have now died out, that men who were blasé from luxury and high living seemed to find a fresh piquancy in life by descending to the lowest resorts, so that the night-houses and gambling-dens in Covent Garden or the Haymarket often gathered illustrious company under their smoke-blackened ceilings.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“All de tam I watch dat Buck I know for sure. Lissen: some dam fine day heem get mad lak hell an’ den heem chew dat Spitz all up an’ spit heem out on de snow. Sure. I know.”
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
“Holmes!” I whispered, “what on earth are you doing in this den?”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Look at that den of traitors where I met you.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I went in, and while we worked I looked about me, for it was 'a den' to be sure.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was sitting in my den, which is at the back of the top of the house, about three o’clock, when I was convinced that I heard some sounds downstairs.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But I had fastened the door—I had the key in my pocket: I should have been a careless shepherd if I had left a lamb—my pet lamb—so near a wolf's den, unguarded: you were safe.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
