LAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lair mean? 

• LAIR (noun)
  The noun LAIR has 1 sense:

1. the habitation of wild animals

  Familiarity information: LAIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The habitation of wild animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

den; lair

Hypernyms ("lair" is a kind of...):

habitation (the native habitat or home of an animal or plant)

 Context examples 

Here, in the abandoned lair, he settled down and rested for a day.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Already all of his lairs but one be sterilise as for him; and before the sunset this shall be so.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Black Simon was down—dying, as he would wish to have died, like a grim old wolf in its lair with a ring of his slain around him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap. She was intent on her work, in which her whole thoughts seemed absorbed: on her hard forehead, and in her commonplace features, was nothing either of the paleness or desperation one would have expected to see marking the countenance of a woman who had attempted murder, and whose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and (as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished to perpetrate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here, in the old lair, he encountered Kiche.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“It is used by their prickers and huntsmen when the beast hath not fled, but is still in its lair.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I awoke to find myself on my back upon the grass in our lair within the thicket.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I expected to see him in some shape go back to Carfax; but he evidently sought some other lair.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The stream, the lair, and the quiet woods were calling to him, and he wanted her to come.

(White Fang, by Jack London)