den

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɛn/    美 /ˈdɛn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
    — a den of robbers
  2. Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight). abbreviation,alt-of
  3. Alternative form of dene. Northumbria,alt-of,alternative
  4. A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
    — a den of vice
  5. A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
    — Near-synonyms: family room, sunroom, Florida room, Arizona room, rec room, playroom
  6. Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
    — Our little girls love using bedsheets and other stuff around the house to make dens in the living room and pretending they're on adventures.
  7. A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell. Scotland,UK,obsolete
    — I have made several visits of late to the Den of Rubislaw
  8. A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
动词 v.
  1. To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den. reflexive
  2. Of an animal, to use as a den; to take up residence in. intransitive
    — Although present in virtually all habitats, it preferred to den in caves, so its distribution, especially in cold, northern areas, may have been limited to limestone and other rocky regions where caves form.
副词 adv.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of then, representing AAVE, Bermuda English. alt-of,not-comparable,pronunciation-spelling

词形变化

dens plural dens present,singular,third-person denning participle,present denned participle,past denned past dens plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).
词源 2
From Old French denier, from Latin denarius.
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