Lair Word Meaning

Word: Lair
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:

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

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: lɛː
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a place where a wild animal, especially a fierce or dangerous one, lives

Short Definition:

place where wild animal lives

Examples:
  • he saw that his dogs had roused a wild boar from its lair
  • the hero goes off to find the dragon's lair
Definition:

a burial plot in a graveyard

Short Definition:

burial plot in graveyard

Examples:
  • their ashes now lie buried in a lair in the Glasgow necropolis
Word: Lair
Speech Type: Verb

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