HIDING PLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hiding place mean? 

• HIDING PLACE (noun)
  The noun HIDING PLACE has 1 sense:

1. a place suitable for hiding something (such as yourself)

  Familiarity information: HIDING PLACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIDING PLACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place suitable for hiding something (such as yourself)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("hiding place" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hiding place"):

drop (a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property))

den; hideaway; hideout (a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws)

lurking place (a place suitable for lurking)

 Context examples 

That he had once, by way of experiment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a servant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humour, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Every effort was made by Inspector Baynes, who has the case in hand, to ascertain the hiding place of the fugitives, and he had good reason to believe that they had not gone far but were lurking in some retreat which had been already prepared.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)