den

Signification (Anglais)

1. 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.
2. A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
3. A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
4. Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)
5. (obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
6. A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.

tanière

antre

repaire de drogués

clandé

fumerie d’opium

fumerie de crack

private room

bield

breeding place

bandit’s den

criminal association

thieves’ den

small pit

flash-house

living quarters

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɛn/

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”).