OPIUM DEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opium den mean? 

• OPIUM DEN (noun)
  The noun OPIUM DEN has 1 sense:

1. a building where opium is sold and used

  Familiarity information: OPIUM DEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPIUM DEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building where opium is sold and used

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("opium den" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

 Context examples 

In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes.

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

Now for the sinister cripple who lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. Clair.

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

She had the surest information that of late he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the farthest east of the City.

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

Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the street, with her eyes fixed full upon me.

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

This is the man whom we now learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest.

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

Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the steps—for the house was none other than the opium den in which you found me to-night—and running through the front room she attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor.

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

There the matter stands at present, and the questions which have to be solved—what Neville St. Clair was doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance—are all as far from a solution as ever.

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