NESTLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nestled mean? 

• NESTLED (adjective)
  The adjective NESTLED has 1 sense:

1. drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection

  Familiarity information: NESTLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NESTLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection

Synonyms:

nestled; snuggled

Context example:

like a baby snuggled in its mother's arms

Similar:

close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)

 Context examples 

She nestled against him, and then, with a change of position, her hands crept up and rested upon his neck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The little creature ran across at the words and nestled up against the lady’s dress.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nestled there, it’s protected from the solar wind, making its shape different from other magnetospheres in the solar system.

(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)

When the ash finally settled in January 2015, a newborn island with a 400-foot (120-meter) summit nestled between two older islands – visible to satellites in space.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

ALMA also revealed that these large galaxies were nestled inside an even-more-massive cosmic structure, a halo of dark matter several trillion times more massive than the sun.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn's rings.

(NASA's Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons, NASA)

Holmes nestled in silence into his heavy coat, and I was glad to do the same, for the air was most bitter, and neither of us had broken our fast.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A rosy, chubby, sunshiny little soul was Daisy, who found her way to everybody's heart, and nestled there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I again nestled to the breast of the hill; and ere long in sleep forgot sorrow.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jip nestled closer to his mistress, and lazily licked her hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)