nest

Meaning

Noun

1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
2. A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
3. A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
4. A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
5. A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
6. A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
7. A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
8. A fortified position for a weapon.
9. A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
10. A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
11. An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
12. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
13. A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
14. (slang) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.

Verb

1. To build or settle into a nest.
2. To settle into a home.
3. To successively neatly fit inside another.
4. To place in, or as if in, a nest.
5. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
6. To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

Concepts

nest

den

lair

hive

hole

home

nidus

beehive

brood

haunt

nestle

nuzzle

snuggle

roost

cage

bird’s nest

burrow

box

bed

nesting place

rookery

hiding place

dwelling

cuddle

draw close

hotbed

knot

set

bird-nest

dent

focal point

battery

pack

string

build a nest

center

centre

raft

page

strand

width

womb

nest box

breeding place

build

nesting

inhabit

live

bird ’s nest

hatchery

incubator

hatch

build its nest

birdhouse

abode

flash-house

hellhole

house

aggregation

embed

bird-cage

clump

perch

embosom

nestle down

nestification

areatus

embedded

container

refuge

kraal

bird nest

bird's nest

interlace

interleave

pyramid

birdnest

cavity

chip

cranny

dimple

hollow

nick

opening

barrelhouse

cave

cavern

grot

grotto

bag

base

bowl

focus

head

hotspot

pocket

batch

block

cascade

chapter

concatenation

division

nexus

run

series

streak

succession

suite

habitation

collection

coop

nidify

army

ascension

band

barrel

barren

bevy

bike

boar

brace

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

cete

chowder

circle

clamour

cloud

clowder

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

field

flight

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

harras

herd

hirsel

intrigue

kennel

kindle

leash

mob

murder

murmuration

mustering

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

pounce

pride

rout

school

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

sounder

span

stud

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

train

tribe

trip

troop

wedge

hideaway

hideout

cocoon

earth

camp

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nɛst/

Etymology

From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).

Sentences

Satin bowerbirds nest between October and February .