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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WARREN, n. [See Guard, Warrant and Wary.]
1. A piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits.
2. In law, a franchise or place privileged by prescription or grant from the king, for keeping beasts and fowls. The warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends a chase, a park and a free warren.
3. A place for keeping fish in a river.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: United States writer and poet (1905-1989) [syn: Warren, Robert Penn Warren]
2: United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974) [syn: Warren, Earl Warren]
3: a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits [syn: warren, rabbit warren]
4: an overcrowded residential area [syn: warren, rabbit warren]
5: a colony of rabbits

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English wareine, from Anglo-French warenne, garenne Date: 14th century 1. chiefly British a. a place legally authorized for keeping small game (as hare or pheasant) b. the privilege of hunting game in such a warren 2. a. (1) an area (as of uncultivated ground) where rabbits breed (2) a structure where rabbits are kept or bred b. the rabbits of a warren 3. a. a crowded tenement or district b. a maze of passageways or small rooms

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name Earl 1891-1974 American jurist; chief justice United States Supreme Court (1953-69) II. biographical name Gouverneur Kemble 1830-1882 American general III. biographical name Joseph 1741-1775 American physician & general in Revolution IV. biographical name Robert Penn 1905-1989 American author & educator; poet laureate (1986-87) V. geographical name 1. city SE Michigan N of Detroit population 138,247 2. city NE Ohio NW of Youngstown population 46,832

Britannica Concise

Town (pop.,
1990: 11,000), E Rhode Island. Located near Providence, it was settled in 1632 and was originally part of Massachusetts. In 1747 Rhode Island annexed it. It was pillaged and burned by the British during the Amer. Revolution. It is now a summer resort.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a network of interconnecting rabbit burrows. b a piece of ground occupied by this. 2 a densely populated or labyrinthine building or district. 3 hist. a piece of ground on which game is preserved. Etymology: ME f. AF & ONF warenne, OF garenne game-park f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Warren War"ren, n. [Of. waresne, warenne, garene, F. garenne, from OF. warer, garer, to beware, to take care; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. war?n (in comp.), OS. war?n to take care, to observe, akin to E. wary. ????. See Wary.] 1. (Eng Law) (a) A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren. --Burrill. (b) A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. --Spelman. They wend both warren and in waste. --Piers Plowman. Note: The warren is the next franchise in degree to the park; and a forest, which is the highest in dignity, comprehends a chase, a park, and a free warren. 2. A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits. 3. A place for keeping flash, in a river.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(warrens) 1. A warren is a group of holes in the ground which are connected by tunnels and which rabbits live in. N-COUNT: oft n N 2. If you describe a building or an area of a city as a warren, you mean that there are many narrow passages or streets. ...a warren of narrow streets. = maze N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

One that is security for goods taken up on credit by extravagant young gentlemen. Cunny warren; a girl's boarding-school, also a bawdy-house.

Moby Thesaurus

Augean stables, Hydra, abri, antre, bunker, burrow, cave, cavern, cove, dugout, dump, foxhole, grot, grotto, hole, hotbed, hovel, lair, milk cow, mustard, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, rabbit, rich soil, rookery, seed plot, sewer, slum, stable, sty, subterrane, subway, tenement, the slums, tunnel