den
意味
- (野生動物の)巣穴,ほら穴
- 《話》奥まった小部屋;私室
- 隠れ家(が);(特に犯罪者の)根城,巣
例文
The world is a den of crazies.
世界は奇人の巣だ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).
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