Warren

Quick meaning: Warren is a noun meaning A system of burrows in which rabbits live.

Meaning

A system of burrows in which rabbits live.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
2. A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
3. (archaic) The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.
4. (historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.

Example Sentences

The largest warren in group 9 had 10 entrances in use and 11 not in use.

Grouse are not birds of warren ( 2 ); and trespass on a free warren will not lie for shooting them .

We piled into Manchester's car, leaving mine at the gallery, and crossed town, striking off the main road and into a warren of dirt roads and adobe.

With demand having increased by almost 40% in the past ten years, overcrowding now threatens to reach occasionally dangerous levels on platforms and in the warren of narrow subterranean passageways between them and the surface.

Word Forms

• warrens

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lair, worn, rutherford, den, form, maze.

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