dennoun [ C ]
uk/den/us/den/den noun [ C ] (FOR ANIMALS)
the home of particular types of wild animal
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Animal dwellings - natural
- anthill
- arboreal
- biome
- burrow
- byre
- cobweb
- earth
- habitat
- hole
- house
- lair
- litter
- lodge
- molehill
- nest
- niche
- rookery
- roost
- web
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den noun [ C ] (ROOM)
mainly US a room in a house or apartment, used for activities not involving work:
The kids are watching TV in the den.
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Parts of buildings: rooms
- antechamber
- anteroom
- atelier
- atrium
- attic
- ballroom
- conservatory
- double room
- en suite
- eyrie
- family room
- form room
- front room
- gymnasium
- parlour
- reading room
- reception room
- refectory
- room
- snug
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den noun [ C ] (FOR CHILDREN)
UK a rough structure, usually built outside from pieces of wood, cardboard, etc., in which children play
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Play areas for children
- adventure playground
- amusement arcade
- ball pool
- climbing frame
- flume
- jungle gym
- paddling pool
- playhouse
- playpen
- recreation ground
- roundabout
- sandbox
- sandpit
- schoolyard
- slide
- swing
- teeter-totter
- tree house
- wading pool
- Wendy house
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den noun [ C ] (CRIME)
a place where people secretly plan or take part in dishonest or illegal activities:
a drug/drinking/vice den
often humorous a den of thieves/iniquity
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Unpleasant places
- armpit
- be the armpit of sth idiom
- desert
- dive
- dump
- eyesore
- fleapit
- hellhole
- hole
- hotbed
- pigpen
- pigsty
- pit
- sausage machine
- slum
- the Black Hole of Calcutta
- tourist trap
- wasteland
- what's the world coming to? idiom
- world
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