nests
noun
Meaning
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
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