Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area where rabbits live in burrows.
- noun A colony of rabbits.
- noun An enclosure for small game animals.
- noun An overcrowded living area.
- noun A mazelike place where one may easily become lost.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits or other game: a place where rabbits abound.
- noun In English law, a franchise or place privileged by prescription or grant from the crown, for keeping beasts and fowls of warren, which are hares, rabbits, partridges, and pheasants, though some add quails, woodcocks, and waterfowl.
- noun A preserve for fish in a river.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of
warren . - noun A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of
warren , to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. - noun A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
- noun A place for keeping flash, in a river.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The system of
burrows whererabbits live. - noun figuratively A
mazelike place ofdark alleys etc in which it's easy tolose oneself ; especially one that may beovercrowded .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
- noun a colony of rabbits
- noun an overcrowded residential area
- noun a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
- noun United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even though the characters are rabbits, their journey to find a new warren is incredibly gripping.
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They were admitted into the main warren in full standing.
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After the warren is settled, their adventures continue.
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January 21, 2007 at 6: 41 pm | Reply dr. neil clark warren is the guy from the eharmony commercials who says he created eharmony. so now, the guy created another site and is using eharmony to pimp it. i doubt any money is being exchanged as they are both his sites.
Eharmony gets into affiliate marketing. « The Paradigm Shift 2007
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After the warren is settled, their adventures continue.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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He rode Dino Chretien’s coat tails to a mediocre fame and now Dino is, like a month away from pissing his Depends and eating Pablum in a nursing home poor widdle warren is left without any coat tails to ride.
Warren Kinsella Quits Post « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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As Robert Murat along with 19 other people invaded a small recessed corridor similar to army billets as 5A, C, D, then the warren is a run.
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Apparently, they've all been moved to a basement "warren" called "Cubicle City," where the conditions are cramped and crowded and despairing, like life on board the Battlestar Galactica: "We have 82 members who do not have an office," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer D-Md.
Ousted Legislators Sent To Gloomy Basement 'Cubicle City' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Apparently, they've all been moved to a basement "warren" called "Cubicle City," where the conditions are cramped and crowded and despairing, like life on board the Battlestar Galactica:
Ousted Legislators Sent To Gloomy Basement 'Cubicle City' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Apparently, they've all been moved to a basement "warren" called "Cubicle City," where the conditions are cramped and crowded and despairing, like life on board the Battlestar Galactica:
Ousted Legislators Sent To Gloomy Basement 'Cubicle City' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
jennarenn commented on the word warren
Short for Lauren.
April 29, 2008
beautifulpyre commented on the word warren
I thought it was a rabbit nest. I'm thinking of Watership Down.
April 30, 2009
rgadekar commented on the word warren
We have a ghoosh warren at my place
July 18, 2012