Den

Definition: Den

Den

Noun

1. The habitation of wild animals.

2. A hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws.

3. A room that is comfortable and secluded.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Den" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus".

Date "den" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

19th Century Satire

Bible

Building & Civil Engineering

Literature

Medicine

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DEN

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Synonyms: Den

Abode

Nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah.

Courage

Bell the cat, take the bull by the horns, beard the lion in his den, march up to the cannon's mouth, go through fire and water, run the gantlet.

Danger

At stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery, slippy; hanging by a thread; Verb: with a halter round one's neck; between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires; on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire; not out of the wood.

Prison

Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.

Receptacle

Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.

Stealing

Thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves.

Uncleanness

Sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.

Vice

Lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den; gusto picaresco.

Brothel; gambling house; joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house.

Crosswords: Den

Afrikaan (fir, pine, pine tree, pine-tree), Basque (that is), Breton (person), Czech (day, daytime), Danish (it, the), Dutch (fir, pine, pine-tree, van den Heuvel), German (him, that, that one, the, to the, which, whom), Irish (of the, from the), Luxembourgish (the), Macedonian (day), Norwegian (it, the), Papiamen (a, below, beneath, in, inside, into, on, per, under, underneath, within), Sranan (the), Swedish (he, it, one, she, that, the, they, this).

Den you get de money (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Den ska flyttas (Repmånad; writing credit: Bo Jonsson; Lars Molin)

Dies schenkt euch Siegfried, den Hagen erschlug (Nibelungen, Teil 2: Kriemhilds Rache, Die; writing credit: Harald G. Petersson ; Harald Reinl)

Into the lion's den! (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

Operator, you have obviously never been trapped in a Chinese opium den! (Thoroughly Modern Millie; writing credit: Richard Morris)

Into the lion's den (Kiss Kiss; performing artist: Stella Soleil)

Alice in den Städten (1974)

Den Italienska halmhatten (1974)

Ktory neumrie Den (1974)

In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod (1974)

Den Kyske levemand (1974)

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Books

• Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years (reference)

• Den of Thieves (reference)

• Estate of Mind: A Den of Antiquity Mystery (reference)

• Inside the Lion's Den (reference)

• So Faux, So Good: A Den of Antiquity Mystery (reference)

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Periodicals

• Den Danske Pioneer (reference)

• Den Ny Verden (reference)

• Rundschau Fuer Den Lebensmittelhandel (reference)

• Tidsskrift For Den Norske Laegeforening (reference)

• Zwf : Zeitschrift Fuer Den Wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Den of Iniquity (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Music for a Bachelor's Den (reference)

• Treasures from the Folk Den (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Dragon Legends by Den Beauvais (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Southern Fur Seal -- Arctocephalus gazella Peters and Arctocephalus elegans Peters. As seen at New Amsterdam Island. In: "Die Forschungsreise S. M. S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876." P. 322. Plate 3. Library Call Number C/L G373 H. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Phalacrocorax verrucosus -- a type of cormorant. In: "Die Forschungsreise S. M. S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876." P. 322. Plate 9. Library Call Number C/L G373 H. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Ensign Dann Karlson assists divers with tide gauge installation, while Lt. E. J. Van Den Ameele (Field Operations Officer) and Ordinary Seaman Chip Miller prepare additional gear. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

RAINIER Field Operations Officer, Lt. E. J. Van Den Ameele, works with Senior Survey Tech Winli Lin leveling the tide gauge while Survey Tech Nicole Stagner holds the level rod. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Summer Science Camp Measuring Bear Den. Credit: Alaska Image Library.

Caption: Glenmont, Interior, First Floor, Den, Facing Dining Room; West Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {12.425/24} (jpg).

Dr. E. Henschel, : zum Jubiläum den 3. Januar 1837. / Gebr. Henschel gez. Koschwitz lith. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Achill Verbindet Den Patroklos. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

But how about this den. Credit: Library of Congress.

You run a den of Congressmen, all shaggy haired and wild. Credit: Library of Congress.

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VVho would not think it an admirable peace betwix the mighty and the mean, when the lamb, without resistance, yielded his throat to be torn by the imperious wolf? Polyphemus's den gives us a perfect pattern of such a peace, and such a government, wherein Ulysses and his companions had nothing to do, but quietly to suffer themselves to be devoured. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Like the animal hunted from his den, he was looking for a hole to hide in until he could find one to remain in.

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Health

Discourage raccoons from living in and around your home or parks by removing access to food. Clear brush so raccoons are not likely to make a den on your property. (references)

Business

The Law against Unfair Competition (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb [UWG] of 1909 and subsequent amendments) remains the most important law as it controls not only the statements made in an advertisement (factual as well as allusions or promises) but also regulates comparative advertisements as well as statements regarding payment (special sales, rebates, buy-one-get-one-free, buy-now-pay-later, etc.). (references)

Trade

Finland

In addition to domestic banks, six foreign banks have branches in Finland: Credit Agricole Indosuez, Citibank International, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), Svenska Handelsbanken, Deutsche bank and Den Danske Banken. (references)

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Den

Den

Expressions using "den": alsatian den ♦ beard the lion in his den ♦ den Haag ♦ den mother ♦ den of Cacus ♦ den of iniquity ♦ den of thieves ♦ den of vice ♦ fox's den ♦ gambling den ♦ lion's den ♦ opium den ♦ robber's den ♦ thieves' den. Additional references.

Beginning with "den": den-sa.

Ending with "den": dinki-doodi-den, fortress-den, goal-den, Good-den, hibernating-den, opium-den, wolf-den.

Afrikaans

grot (cave, cavern, grotto). (various references)

Albanian

strofull (burrow, foxhole, hideout, hole, lair, mew, nest, tunnel, Warren), strofkë (burrow, chase, covert, digging, digs, lair), shpojë, qeli për kafsha të liga, kabinet punës i vogël dhe i izoluar, çerdhe (columbarium, hideout, nest). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وكر حرامية, ‏وكر (nest), ‏حيي في وكر, ‏حجرة قذرة, ‏عرين (lair, sanctum), ‏المختلى (closet). (various references)

Bulgarian 

работна стая, вертеп (hell, joint, kip, pandemonium, shebang, stew), леговище (bed, couch, earth, haunt, lair), бърлога (cubbyhole, delve, hole, house, lair, pandemonium, retreat, sanctum), бордей (brothel, hovel, kennel). (various references)

Chinese 

小室 (Cab, CABS). (various references)

Czech

doupì (burrow, earth, hole, lair, Lodge, nest), pelech (doss, lair), nora (burrow, earth, hole, Warren). (various references)

Danish

rede (arrange, nest, put in order, tidy). (various references)

Dutch

spelonk (cave, cavern), krocht (cave, cavern), holte (cave, cavern, cavity), hol (cave, cavern, cavity, concave, empty, hollow, void), grot (cave, cavern, grotto). (various references)

Esperanto

nesto (nest), kaverno (cave, cavern). (various references)

Faeroese

reiður (nest), hola (cabin, cave, cavern, cavity, hut, shack). (various references)

Farsi 

کمینگاه , کنام (Lair), لانه (Lair, Nest), غار (Cave, Cavern, Crypt, Grotto, Vault), خلوتگاه (Boudoir, Sanctum), دزدگاه . (various references)

Finnish

pesä (estate, grate, hole, hotbed, lair, nest), luola (cave, grotto, hole, lair). (various references)

French

nid. (various references)

German

Höhle (antrum, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, grotto, hole, hollow, hovel, lair, pothole, socket). (various references)

Greek 

καταγώγιο (dive, joint), φωλιά θηρίου, λημέρι (mountain fortress), τρώγλη (burrow, dog house, doghouse, hole, joint). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעונה (afflicted, habitation, lair, ortured, residence, stricken), מערה (cave, cavern, grotto), מאורה (cave, hole, lair, sink), גוב (manhole, pit). (various references)

Hungarian

odú (burrow, cavity, earth, haunt, hold, hole, hovel, lair, nest, rot), barlang (cave, cavern, cove, delve, grot, grotto, grottoes). (various references)

Icelandic

hreiður (nest). (various references)

Indonesian

liang, kandang (corral, stable), gua (cave, grotto). (various references)

Irish

nead (bed, nest). (various references)

Italian

tana (burrow, cave, earth, haunt, hole, lair, Lodge, nest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巣窟 (hangout, haunt, home). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すみか (dwelling, house, residence), す (beehive, breeding place, cobweb, haunt, nest, rookery, sandbank, vinegar), そうくつ (hangout, haunt, home), どうけつ (being buried in the same grave, cave, grotto), ほらあな (cave, grotto), ほら (boast, brag, cave, grotto), じゅうか (arms rack, dwelling, encumbrance, gunfire, heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy punishment, heavy responsibility, house, load, residence, rifle stand, serious crime). (various references)

Korean 

굴 (Cave, Caved, Oyster). (various references)

Manx

ooig (antar, cave, cavern, grotto, hotbed, pit, stope), guag (stope), aaght (accommodation, board, covert, digs, lodging). (various references)

Norwegian

grotte (cave, cavern, grotto). (various references)

Papiamen

neishi (nest). (various references)

Pig Latin

enday.(various references)

Portuguese

viver em toca, toca (burrow, covert, earth, fox earth, haunt, kennel, lair, loach, lodge), retiro (concealment, nest, privacy, resign, retirement, retreat, seclusion, sequestration, withdrawal), recanto (carrel, corner, nook, quiet place), ninho (bed, nest, nidus), covil (cow-house, haunt, hole, lair, loach, lodge, nest), caverna (antre, cave, cavern, delve, grotto, haunt, hollow, lair), antro (antre, cave, hades, haunt, hell, hole, lair, lie, sink), albergue (asylum, harbor, harbour, hostel, inn, kip, lair, refuge, rest). (various references)

Romanian

vizuinã (burrow, earth, haunt, hole, kennel, lair), grotã (cave, cavern, grot, grotto), gaurã (aperture, burrow, cave, cavity, earth, eyelet, gap, hole, hollow, loop, opening, orifice, pink, vent), cuib (aerie, center, centre, home, hotbed, nest), cotlon (fold, hollow, recess), bârlog (couch, hovel, lair), ascunziş (concealment, fold, hiding place, lurch, nook, secret, shelter), afundãturã (bottom, hollow). (various references)

Russian 

рабочий кабинет, каморка, клетка для диких зверей, нора (burrow, dig, hole), логово;комната, логово (lair, lie), берлога (dig, digs, lair). (various references)

Scottish

uamh (cave, cavern), uaimh (a cave, cave), sloc (a pit, cavity, concave, hollow, pit, slough), nead (a nest, nest), garadh (cave), fròg (a hole, chink, cranny, hole), fang (a sheep-pen, a vulture, prison, sheep pen). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mala soba, jazbina (burrow, burrower, hole, lair), jama (cave, lair, pit, pothole). (various references)

Spanish

cueva (cave, cavern, cellar, grotto, nest, pothole). (various references)

Sranan

nesi (nest). (various references)

Swedish

näste (nest), lya (cover, covert, diggings, digs, earth, kennel, lair, lie, pad), kula (ball, bead, bulb, bullet, cave, kennel, lair, paunch, pellet, pill, shot, weight), håla (burrow, cave, cavern, cove, dump, fossa, hole, lair, lie). (various references)

Turkish

delik (aperture, bore, cavity, hole, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, prison, slot, stir, vent, ventage, venthole), zor durum (cleft stick, crunch, foul, grievousness, hole, impasse, lurch, nice pickle, pickle, push, sad pickle, scrape, sorry pickle, spot, tight corner, toughie), yatak (bearings, bed, berth, bunk, bye bye, doss, flop, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, recess, sack, seam, seating, seminary), sığınak (air-raid shelter, asylum, bunker, burrow, cove, cover, covering, covert, cranny, creep, fastness, Harbor, harbour, haven, lair, refuge, repair, sanctuary, shelter, stronghold, tabernacle, tower), mağara (cave, cavern, grotto), in (burrow, cave, couch, earth, haunt, hole, lair), batakhane (barrel house, den of vice, disorderly house, dive, gambling den, honky tonk, joint), çıkmaz (cleft stick, crunch, culde-sac, dead, dead end, deadlock, dilemma, extreme, fix, impasse, inerasable, predicament, quag, quagmire, quicksand, scrape, stalemate, toughie). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьren (cave, lair). (various references)

Ukrainian

схованка (cache, hideaway, hiding place, kennel, lurking place, niche, shades), схов, ховатися в барлозі, кубло (nest, shebang, stash), клітка для диких звірів, гніздо (bezel, nest), нора (burrow, couch, covert, house), жити в барлозі, лігво (cabin, couch, covert, lair, lie), барліг (cabin, couch, lair). (various references)

Welsh

ogof (cave, cavern, grotto), lloches (refuge, shelter), ffau. (various references)

Yucatec

k'u' (nest), aktun (cave, cavern, grotto). (various references)

antrum, caverna, claustrum, cubile, cubili, cubilia, cubilibus, cubilis, latibula, latibulis, latibulum, specus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "den": denar, denari, denarii, denarius, denars, denary, denationalization, denationalizations, denationalize, denationalized, denationalizes, denationalizing, denaturalization, denaturalizations, denaturalize, denaturalized, denaturalizes, denaturalizing, denaturant, denaturants, denaturation, denaturations, denature, denatured, denatures, denaturing, denazification, denazifications, denazified, denazifies, denazify, denazifying, dendriform, dendrite, dendrites, dendritic, dendrochronological, dendrochronologically, dendrochronologies, dendrochronologist, dendrochronologists, dendrochronology, dendrogram, dendrograms, dendroid, dendrologic, dendrological, dendrologies, dendrologist, dendrologists, dendrology. (additional references)

Words ending with "den": backslidden, bedridden, beholden, bemadden, bestridden, bidden, bounden, broaden, burden, chidden, churchwarden, coden, counterbidden, deaden, disburden, downtrodden, embolden, forbidden, garden, gladden, golden, gulden, hagridden, handmaiden, harden, hidden, hodden, hoiden, holden, hoyden, imbolden, joyridden, keeshonden, laden, leaden, linden, loden, louden, madden, maiden, menhaden, midden, milden, olden, outbidden, outchidden, outridden, outstridden, overbidden, overburden, overladen. (additional references)

Words containing "den": accidence, accidences, accident, accidental, accidentally, accidentalness, accidentalnesses, accidentals, accidently, accidents, addend, addenda, addends, addendum, adenine, adenines, adenitis, adenitises, adenocarcinoma, adenocarcinomas, adenocarcinomata, adenocarcinomatous, adenohypophyseal, adenohypophyses, adenohypophysial, adenohypophysis, adenoid, adenoidal, adenoids, adenoma, adenomas, adenomata, adenomatous, adenoses, adenosine, adenosines, adenosis, adenoviral, adenovirus, adenoviruses, adenyl, adenyls, antecedence, antecedences, antecedent, antecedently, antecedents, antistudent, ardencies, ardency, ardent. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Den" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daj, danm, dann, danq, daxn, dayn, d'e, dea, Dedni, deej, deen, deene, degn, Degni, deh, dein, dej, dek, dem, d'en, dena, dend, dene, deng, denk, denn, deno, denp, deon, dep, deq, der, desn, det, deun, dewn, dex, deyn, dez, dfen, Dheen, didn, dien, dihn, dijn, dinn, Dipn, Djem, dn, dna, dne, dnem, dnp, doen, doena, donh, donn, dreen, drefn, dren, dsn, Dten, duen, dxe, dyen, dyn, edn, Edtn, Edv, edx, sden, xen. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: end.

-1 letter: de, ed, en, ne.

+1 letter: bend, dean, dene, deni, dens, dent, deny, dine, done, dune, dyne, ends, fend, lend, mend, need, nerd, nide, node, nude, pend, rend, send, sned, tend, unde, vend, wend.

+2 letters: acned, admen, amend, anode, anted, awned, baned, bends, bendy, blend, boned, caned, coden, coned, dance, daven, dawen, deans, deign, demon, denar, denes, denim, dense, dents, devon, dewan, diene, dined, diner, dines, dinge, dizen, donee, donne, doven, doyen, dozen, drone, dunce, dunes, dwine, dynel, dynes, eland, emend, ended, ender, endow, endue, fends, fiend, fined, honed, index, indie, indue, inked, inned, kendo, knead, kneed, laden, lends, lined, loden, maned, menad, mends, mined, monde, naked, naled, named, needs, needy, nerds, nerdy, nided, nides, nixed, nodes, nosed, noted, nuder, nudes, nudge, nudie, nuked, odeon, olden, owned, paned, pends, pined, redan, redon, rends, saned, scend, sedan, sends, shend, sneds, snide, sonde, spend, teind, tends, tined, toned, trend, tuned, tyned, undee, under, undue, unfed, unled, unwed, upend, vaned, vends, vined, waned, wends, widen, wined, zoned.