Definition of Den

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Definition of Den

Den

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.

Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.

A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.

To live in, or as in, a den.

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Den Quotations

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
John Piper

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
Phillip Adams

There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
Morris Hite

If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cub?
Ban Chao

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
Carl Perkins

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Kitty Carlisle

Den Translations

den in Afrikaans is grot
den in Dutch is spelonk, krocht, hol, grot, holte
den in French is nid
den in Latin is claustrum, cubile, specus
den in Norwegian is grotte, hule
den in Portuguese is ninho
den in Spanish is cubil

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