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Synonyms for nest

Grammar : Noun
Spell : nest
Phonetic Transcription : nɛst

Définition of nest

Origin :
  • Old English nest "bird's nest, snug retreat," also "young bird, brood," from Proto-Germanic *nistaz (cf. Middle Low German, Middle Dutch nest, German Nest), from PIE *nizdo- (cf. Sanskrit nidah "resting place, nest," Latin nidus "nest," Old Church Slavonic gnezdo, Old Irish net, Welsh nyth, Breton nez "nest"), probably from *ni "down" + *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).
  • Used since Middle English in reference to various accumulations of things (e.g. a nest of drawers, early 18c.). Nest egg "retirement savings" is from 1700, originally "a real or artificial egg left in a nest to induce the hen to go on laying there" (c.1600).
  • noun home
Example sentences :
  • The guillemot makes no nest, merely laying a single egg on a ledge.
  • Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
  • The Egret settled to her nest again and the Pelican went on with the story.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • She was shaking the nest of a field mouse from one of the side pockets.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • How sweetly he sang to the mother bird while she sat upon the nest!
  • Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
  • You saw no Sammons in that damned snake's nest, I'll be bound!
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • It was a nest built into the rock, its back sitting snugly there.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • The place was cold as a barn, an' it looked like a hurrah's nest.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • He went a-peekin' an' a-pryin' round my ears, as if he'd found a hornet's nest.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • At the top of the tragic trees I should not find the Angel's Nest.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • I should only find the Mare's Nest; the dreamy and divine nest is not there.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton

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