den
Betekenis (Engels)
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- 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.
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)
- (obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
Sinonieme
private room
bield
breeding place
bandit’s den
criminal association
thieves’ den
small pit
flash-house
living quarters
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/dɛn/
Etimologie (Engels)
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”).
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