Definitions for lair

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Spelling: [lair]

IPA: /lɛər/

Lair is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in lair (ailr).

Definitions for lair

noun

1. a den or resting place of a wild animal:
2. a secluded or hidden place, especially a secret retreat or base of operations; a hideout or hideaway:
3. British. a place in which to lie or rest; a bed.
4. British Dialect. mud; mire.
5. lore; learning.
6. a man who dresses garishly and is crude or vulgar; showoff.

verb (used with object)

1. to place in a lair.
2. to serve as a lair for.

verb (used without object)

1. to go to, lie in, or have a lair.
2. Scot. to sink or stick in mud or mire.

Origin of lair

before 900; Middle English leir, Old English leger; cognate with Dutch, Old High German leger bed, camp; akin to lie²

Examples for lair

His lair is not normal, but it can at least pass for a suburban house.

The Huron arose, and shook himself like a lion quitting his lair.

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

“The lair of the laser loves all of you,” he tells a visiting Atlas Obscura tour group.

In January the actor kidnapped Kimmel, tying him up in his lair.

It tried hard to crawl into its lair, or slip into the lake.

Saying no word, out of his lair he came with that terrible sword of his aloft.

Reuters got hold of photos taken by a Pakistani security official reportedly only an hour after the U.S. stormed bin Laden's lair.

He was not a recluse, however, as the documents and electronic chips recovered by the SEALs from his lair revealed.

Nothing would do, but to go up into his lair, and drag him out.