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WARREN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colony of rabbits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):
animal group (a group of animals)
Meronyms (members of "warren"):
coney; cony; rabbit (any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An overcrowded residential area
Synonyms:
rabbit warren; warren
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):
community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
Synonyms:
rabbit warren; warren
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):
burrow; tunnel (a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
Synonyms:
Earl Warren; Warren
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
Synonyms:
Robert Penn Warren; Warren
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Warren’s whimsical problem enlarges somewhat and assumes a more sinister aspect as we proceed.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For the present, Mrs. Warren, good-bye.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The attack upon Mr. Warren further shows that the enemy, whoever they are, are themselves not aware of the substitution of the female lodger for the male.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I think after breakfast we must make a little reconnaissance of Mrs. Warren’s neighbourhood.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
G.’ That is two days after Mrs. Warren’s lodger arrived.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It’s all very appropriate to Mrs. Warren’s lodger.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, bless you, Mrs. Warren, if I were your lodger you often would not see me for weeks on end.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, Mrs. Warren, you say that the man was of middle size, dark, and bearded.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Warren is a timekeeper at Morton and Waylight’s, in Tottenham Court Road.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
