Definitions for nest

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IPA: /nɛst/

Nest 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 28 anagrams from letters in nest (enst).

Definitions for nest

noun

1. a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
2. a place used by insects, fishes, turtles, rabbits, etc., for depositing their eggs or young.
3. a number of birds, insects, animals, etc., inhabiting one such place.
4. a snug retreat or refuge; resting place; home.
5. an assemblage of things lying or set close together, as a series of boxes or trays, that fit within each other:
6. a place where something bad is fostered or flourishes:
7. the occupants or frequenters of such a place.

verb (used with object)

1. to settle or place (something) in or as if in a nest:
2. to fit or place one within another:

verb (used without object)

1. to build or have a nest:
2. to settle in or as if in a nest.
3. to fit together or within another or one another:
4. to search for or collect nests:
5. Computers. to place a routine inside another routine that is at a higher hierarchical level.

Origin of nest

before 900; Middle English, Old English (cognate with Dutch, German nest; akin to Latin nīdus nest, Old Irish net, Welsh nyth, Sanskrit nīḍa lair) ≪ Indo-European *nizdo- bird's nest, equival

Examples for nest

Mark Reay is a handsome model-turned-photographer who is homeless, living in a secret ‘nest’ on top of an apartment building.

You saw no Sammons in that damned snake's nest, I'll be bound!

The Egret settled to her nest again and the Pelican went on with the story.

The guillemot makes no nest, merely laying a single egg on a ledge.

He found one, a male, maybe 50 yards from the nest with no obvious injuries.

Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.

How sweetly he sang to the mother bird while she sat upon the nest!

The two eaglets almost certainly would have died after a big storm wrecked their nest last year.

And an eaglet does not start off flying from the ground, but from the nest.

She was shaking the nest of a field mouse from one of the side pockets.