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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. Related Definitions: Alone, Among, Any, As, Be, Beast, By, Cave, Cavern, Close, Concealment, Dell, Den, Dwelling, For, Glen, Haunt, Hill, Hollow, In, Lion, Live, Narrow, Of, One, Or, Place, Ravine, Resort, Retreat, Shelter, Side, Small, Snug, Squalid, The, To, Used, Vice, Where, Wild, Wretched

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

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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