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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEN, n.
1. A cave or hollow place in the earth; usually applied to a cave, pit, or subterraneous recess, used for concealment, shelter, protection or security; as a lions den; a den of robbers or thieves.
The beasts go into dens. The children of Israel made themselves dens. Job 37. Judges 6.
2. As a termination, in names of places, it denotes the place to be in a valley or near a wood.
DEN, v.i. To dwell as in a den.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the habitation of wild animals [syn: lair, den]
2: a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws [syn: hideout, hideaway, den]
3: a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
4: a room that is comfortable and secluded

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation Denmark

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English denn; akin to Old English denu valley, Old High German tenni threshing floor Date: before 12th century 1. the lair of a wild usually predatory animal 2. a. (1) a hollow or cavern used especially as a hideout (2) a center of secret activity b. a small usually squalid dwelling 3. a comfortable usually secluded room 4. a subdivision of a Cub Scout pack made up of two or more boys II. verb (denned; denning) Date: 13th century intransitive verb to live in or retire to a den <polar bears den in ice caves or snowdrifts> transitive verb to drive into a den

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a wild animal's lair. 2 a place of crime or vice (den of iniquity; opium den). 3 a small private room for pursuing a hobby etc. Etymology: OE denn f. Gmc, rel. to DEAN(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Den Den, n. [AS. denn; perh. akin to G. tenne floor, thrashing floor, and to AS. denu valley.] 1. A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers. 2. A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice. ``Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of great capitals.'' --Addison. 3. Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone. [Colloq.] 4. [AS. denu.] A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell. [Old Eng. & Scotch] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Den Den, v. i. To live in, or as in, a den. The sluggish salvages that den below. --G. Fletcher.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dens) 1. A den is the home of certain types of wild animals such as lions or foxes. N-COUNT 2. Your den is a quiet room in your house where you can go to study, work, or carry on a hobby without being disturbed. (AM) N-COUNT 3. A den is a secret place where people meet, usually for a dishonest purpose. I could provide you with the addresses of at least three illegal drinking dens. N-COUNT: usu supp N 4. If you describe a place as a den of a particular type of bad or illegal behaviour, you mean that a lot of that type of behaviour goes on there. ...the one-bedroomed flat that was to become his den of savage debauchery. N-COUNT: N of n

Easton's Bible Dictionary

a lair of wild beasts (Ps. 10:9; 104:22; Job 37:8); the hole of a venomous reptile (Isa. 11:8); a recess for secrecy "in dens and caves of the earth" (Heb. 11:38); a resort of thieves (Matt. 21:13; Mark 11:17). Daniel was cast into "the den of lions" (Dan. 6:16, 17). Some recent discoveries among the ruins of Babylon have brought to light the fact that the practice of punishing offenders against the law by throwing them into a den of lions was common.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

(ma`on, me`onah, "habitation"; me`arah, and spelaion, "cave"; me'urah (Isa 11:8), "a light-hole," from 'or, "light," perhaps for me`arah; cokh (Ps 10:9 the King James Version), and cukkah (Job 38:40), "a covert," elsewhere "booth"; 'erebh (Job 37:8), "covert," as in the Revised Version (British and American); gobh; compare Arabic jubb, "pit" (Da 6:7); minharoth, "fissure" or "cleft" (Jud 6:2)): In the limestone mountains of Palestine caves, large and small, are abundant, the calcium carbonate, of which the rock is mainly composed, being dissolved by the water as it trickles over them or through their crevices. Even on the plains, by a similar process, pits or "lime sinks" are formed, which are sometimes used by the Arabs for storing straw or grain. Of this sort may have been the pit, bor, into which Joseph was cast by his brethren (Ge 37:20). Caves and crevices and sometimes spaces among piled-up boulders at the foot of a cliff or in a stream bed are used as dens by jackals, wolves and other wild animals. Even the people, for longer or shorter periods, have lived as troglodytes. Compare Jud 6:2: "Because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens (minharoth) which are in the mountains, and the caves (me`arah), and the strongholds (metsadh)." The precipitous sides of the valleys contain many caves converted by a little labor into human habitations. Notable instances are the valley of the Kidron near Mar-Saba, and Wadi-ul-Chamam near the Sea of Tiberias. See CAVE.

Alfred Ely Day

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Cavern, cave. 2. [Always in bad sense, implying squalor, misery, or vice.] Haunt, retreat, resort, place of resort.

Foolish Dictionary

A cavity.

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	DEN
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	ANM
FAA District	DEN
State	CO
State	COLORADO
County	DENVER
County State	CO
City Name	DENVER
Full Name	DENVER INTL
Owner Type	PU
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"DENVER, CO 80249"
Elevation	5431
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	DENVER
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	16
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	NE
Active Date	08/1993
Airport Certification Type and Date	I ES 02/1995
NASP/Federal Agreement Code	NGY
Control Tower	Y
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	001
Commercial Services	330674
Air Taxi	224960
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	009936
Military Aircraft Operations	000951
Latitude	39.8616563889
Longitude	-104.6731775000
State FIPS code	08
State Postal Code	CO
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	20407002
Version	09

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