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noun lɛːlɛr 1A place where a wild animal lives. the badgers carried the food back to their lair Example sentencesExamples - So dark would it be that the birds would return to their nests, while nocturnal animals would emerge from their lairs.
- Handfishers then dive down and reach into the underwater lairs, hoping that a monster ‘cat’ will chomp on the proffered bait - the noodler's hand.
- We noted one area just south of Misty Island where the snow cover over a large (but uncounted) number of birth lairs and breathing holes was washed away or had collapsed because of the rain.
- There he saw that his dogs had roused a wild boar from its lair, and he set off on a chase.
- The sites were the lairs of Allosaurus, places to which adults brought food to feed their offspring.
- What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals!
- As it is an offence to kill or ‘knowingly disturb’ an otter, the developers will now have to construct a replacement holt - an underground lair - for the animals.
- We aren't too deep in the forest, and more often than not, the wild beasts do not come this far out from their lairs and dens.
- A musky smell hangs in the air-not unpleasant, but more suggestive of a mammal's lair than a bird's nest.
- If she hesitates, the male again pops in and out of his lair until she is finally tempted inside.
- Each December and January, rainstorms drench the parched South African landscape and summon African bullfrogs from their subterranean lairs.
- Of 15 seal lairs found from 19 to 31 March, six had collapsed roofs.
- Dacoits and wild beasts from the surrounding forests used it as their lair.
- He would build his own dens from what was available or send his female accomplice out to look for empty animal lairs, sometimes she found them, others times she didn't.
- This is when the fish leave their reef lairs and congregate by the thousands on traditional spawning banks to the seaward side of the reef.
- Bilbo enters the dragon's lair, and steals a golden cup for them.
- Otters have been spotted on the River Calder, in Dewsbury, after a new holt - a lair - was built to try to encourage them to breed.
- Trips to refuges like Montezuma or Jamaica Bay are revelatory, but ultimately, we're trespassers, traipsing callously through the beasts' lairs.
- Rabbits and foxes took to their burrows and lairs and were killed.
- Since the world's vegetation was beginning its final decay, and the animals retreating into their lairs, food would be set out for the spirits of the dead, to help tide them over the dark of the year.
Synonyms den, burrow, hole, lie, covert, tunnel, dugout, hollow, cave, haunt - 1.1 A secret or private place in which a person seeks concealment or seclusion.
he led the police to the criminals' lair Example sentencesExamples - Sophia gathered that this place was not his home, but his lair, his secret study.
- Her eyes studied more clues that let her to piece together that this was indeed the lair of the criminal they were looking for.
- What if they use these results to start building nuclear weapons in a secret, underground, mountain lair?
- They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.
- I am going to lure those fools into my top secret lair!
- Xavier runs a school for ‘gifted’ (read mutant) children that hides the almost mandatory secret superhero lair.
- A short gallery of sketches shows off Jun's sense of fashion; another sketch gallery includes production art for villains, secret lairs, and gadgets galore.
- About two minutes later he returned with two doctors from his secret lair.
- And in a hidden lair somewhere, no doubt, Ron " The Wizard " Perelman plots his revenge.
- At his secret lair, Moltar watched over all the participants.
- She hid the mirror in her secret lair, a storage room located in the chateau's basement.
- We have actually managed to interview him from deep in his secret lair somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
- They must have taken her to the secret lair of the scientists.
- Two of Gordon's enemies plot his downfall from their secret lair.
- She retreats upward, seeking the seclusion of her rooftop lair.
- Meanwhile, in a dark part of Earth, in his secret lair deep in the Bermuda triangle, a menace by the name of Hordas was plotting to take over the World.
- Doug built a lair, with a secret hidden entrance that only he knew of but his father told him to put all the cushions back on the sofa and chairs properly when he got home from work that evening.
- These are the men and women who remain on the job long after the special forces have made their largely useless swoops and patrols, and who remain on the firing line when the criminals return from their lairs.
- The film also recalls the elaborate assassination methods, secret passages and underground lairs that were typical of Rohmer's contemporary Edgar Wallace, who inspired the then popular series of Krimi films in Germany.
- Then it's onwards and upwards to the treetop scramble, with its rope ladders, wooden bridges and hidden routes to the little dragons' amazing secret tree-top lair.
Synonyms hideaway, hiding place, hideout, refuge, sanctuary, haven, cache, shelter, retreat informal hidey-hole
Origin Old English leger 'resting place, bed', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leger 'bed, camp' and German Lager 'storehouse', also to lie1. Compare with laager, lager, and leaguer2. lager from mid 19th century: The fuller name for lager, no longer much used, is lager beer. It comes from German Lagerbier ‘beer brewed for keeping’, from Lager ‘storehouse’, which shares its root with an animal's lair (Old English), and also with lie (Old English). Since the 1980s we have had the lager lout, the young man who drinks too much and then behaves in an unpleasant or violent way. See also beer
Rhymes affair, affaire, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, doctrinaire, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glair, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pair, pare, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, rare, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah noun lɛːlɛr Australian, NZ informal A flashily dressed man who enjoys showing off.
verb lɛːlɛr [no object]Australian, NZ informal Dress or behave in a flashy manner. some of us laired up in Assam silk suits
Origin 1930s: back-formation from lairy. nounlɛrler 1A wild animal's resting place, especially one that is well hidden. the badgers carried the food back to their lair Example sentencesExamples - Dacoits and wild beasts from the surrounding forests used it as their lair.
- There he saw that his dogs had roused a wild boar from its lair, and he set off on a chase.
- So dark would it be that the birds would return to their nests, while nocturnal animals would emerge from their lairs.
- What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals!
- Otters have been spotted on the River Calder, in Dewsbury, after a new holt - a lair - was built to try to encourage them to breed.
- Handfishers then dive down and reach into the underwater lairs, hoping that a monster ‘cat’ will chomp on the proffered bait - the noodler's hand.
- The sites were the lairs of Allosaurus, places to which adults brought food to feed their offspring.
- Each December and January, rainstorms drench the parched South African landscape and summon African bullfrogs from their subterranean lairs.
- If she hesitates, the male again pops in and out of his lair until she is finally tempted inside.
- We noted one area just south of Misty Island where the snow cover over a large (but uncounted) number of birth lairs and breathing holes was washed away or had collapsed because of the rain.
- Trips to refuges like Montezuma or Jamaica Bay are revelatory, but ultimately, we're trespassers, traipsing callously through the beasts' lairs.
- We aren't too deep in the forest, and more often than not, the wild beasts do not come this far out from their lairs and dens.
- This is when the fish leave their reef lairs and congregate by the thousands on traditional spawning banks to the seaward side of the reef.
- Since the world's vegetation was beginning its final decay, and the animals retreating into their lairs, food would be set out for the spirits of the dead, to help tide them over the dark of the year.
- A musky smell hangs in the air-not unpleasant, but more suggestive of a mammal's lair than a bird's nest.
- He would build his own dens from what was available or send his female accomplice out to look for empty animal lairs, sometimes she found them, others times she didn't.
- As it is an offence to kill or ‘knowingly disturb’ an otter, the developers will now have to construct a replacement holt - an underground lair - for the animals.
- Bilbo enters the dragon's lair, and steals a golden cup for them.
- Of 15 seal lairs found from 19 to 31 March, six had collapsed roofs.
- Rabbits and foxes took to their burrows and lairs and were killed.
Synonyms den, burrow, hole, lie, covert, tunnel, dugout, hollow, cave, haunt - 1.1 A secret or private place in which a person seeks concealment or seclusion.
he led the police to the criminals' lair Example sentencesExamples - She hid the mirror in her secret lair, a storage room located in the chateau's basement.
- Sophia gathered that this place was not his home, but his lair, his secret study.
- At his secret lair, Moltar watched over all the participants.
- Two of Gordon's enemies plot his downfall from their secret lair.
- These are the men and women who remain on the job long after the special forces have made their largely useless swoops and patrols, and who remain on the firing line when the criminals return from their lairs.
- Doug built a lair, with a secret hidden entrance that only he knew of but his father told him to put all the cushions back on the sofa and chairs properly when he got home from work that evening.
- She retreats upward, seeking the seclusion of her rooftop lair.
- About two minutes later he returned with two doctors from his secret lair.
- They must have taken her to the secret lair of the scientists.
- We have actually managed to interview him from deep in his secret lair somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
- The film also recalls the elaborate assassination methods, secret passages and underground lairs that were typical of Rohmer's contemporary Edgar Wallace, who inspired the then popular series of Krimi films in Germany.
- Her eyes studied more clues that let her to piece together that this was indeed the lair of the criminal they were looking for.
- What if they use these results to start building nuclear weapons in a secret, underground, mountain lair?
- Meanwhile, in a dark part of Earth, in his secret lair deep in the Bermuda triangle, a menace by the name of Hordas was plotting to take over the World.
- Xavier runs a school for ‘gifted’ (read mutant) children that hides the almost mandatory secret superhero lair.
- Then it's onwards and upwards to the treetop scramble, with its rope ladders, wooden bridges and hidden routes to the little dragons' amazing secret tree-top lair.
- I am going to lure those fools into my top secret lair!
- They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.
- And in a hidden lair somewhere, no doubt, Ron " The Wizard " Perelman plots his revenge.
- A short gallery of sketches shows off Jun's sense of fashion; another sketch gallery includes production art for villains, secret lairs, and gadgets galore.
Synonyms hideaway, hiding place, hideout, refuge, sanctuary, haven, cache, shelter, retreat
Origin Old English leger ‘resting place, bed’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leger ‘bed, camp’ and German Lager ‘storehouse’, also to lie. Compare with laager, lager, and leaguer. nounlɛrler Australian, NZ informal A flashily dressed man who enjoys showing off.
verblɛrler [no object]Australian, NZ informal Dress or behave in a flashy manner. some of us laired up in Assam silk suits
Origin 1930s: back-formation from lairy. |