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Definition of Den

Den

  1. 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.
  2. A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.
  3. Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.
  4. A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
  5. To live in, or as in, a den.

Den Quotations

I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den.
Steve Jobs

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

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

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

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