Lair definitions

lâr
The definition of a lair is a secret, secluded or private place, especially one used by an animal.

A wolf's den is an example of a lair.

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The den or dwelling of a wild animal.
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A den or hideaway.
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A resting place; a couch.
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A bed or resting place of a wild animal; den.
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Any place of refuge or for hiding.
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To go to, rest in, or have a lair.
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A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
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(figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain.
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(Scotland) To mire.
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(intransitive, Scotland) To become mired.
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Origin of lair

From Old English leġer (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Sentence Examples

  • She whirled, but the vamp that had led her into the underground lair blocked the doorway.

  • Like some huge many-limbed animal, the regiment began to prepare its lair and its food.

  • Lair.; Proclus, In primum Euclidis Elementorum Librum Commentarii, ed.

  • The metal lair was much cooler than the air above ground, and water stained the walls on one side of the tunnel.

  • Apart from the modern studies by Lair, FunckBrentano, Lang and Barnes, referred to above, there is valuable historical matter in the work of Roux-Fazaillac, Recherches historiques sur l'homme au masque defer (1801); see also Marius Topin, L'Homme au masque de fer (Paris, 1870), and Loiseleur, Trois Enigmes historiques (1882).

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