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nests

noun

Meaning

  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. (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
  8. To settle into a home.
  9. To successively neatly fit inside another.
  10. To place in, or as if in, a nest.
  11. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
  12. To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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