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lair

Best crossword clue

"Animal den"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈlɛə̯/Part of speech nounSorted ailrStarts with LEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the habitation of wild animals

Word origin

From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English leġer (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Used in a sentence

  • O dainty dew, O morning dew / That gleamed in the world's first dawn, did you / And the sweet grass and manful oaks / Give lair and rest / To him who toadwise sits and croaks / His death-behest?
  • “Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”
  • [H]e did a little scout work, and discovered the lair of that old woman.

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