Definition of den in English:

den

nounPlural dens dɛndɛn

1A wild mammal's hidden home; a lair.
兽穴，兽窝
a female mink had set up her den there
Example sentencesExamples
- The pups emerged from their protective den, pawing the earth in celebration.
- For example, everyone is familiar with kittens playing together, or has seen film of fox or wolf cubs wrestling and fighting at the mouth of the den.
- He studied their habits and habitats and knew exactly when the fox or badger was in the den or sett.
- Allen says it is not unusual to see ski tracks going right over a sleeping bear's den in the middle of winter.
- Others build dens in hollow logs, under tree roots, or in abandoned buildings.
- The spotted hyena spends its day in holes in the ground, or in rocky dens.
- When the weather improved they disappeared back to their dens or caves in the forests.
- Some terriers' tails were cropped because it made it easier for them to get into badger setts, fox dens and the like.
- Skunks, foxes, weasels, opossums and rabbits all use groundhog burrows for their dens.
- Colugos are nocturnal, passing the day in dens in hollow trees or suspended from branches.
- Bears will seldom den in habitat that is not capable of catching large snowdrifts.
- North American river otters build dens in the burrows of other mammals, in natural hollows, such as under a log, or in river banks.
- With a muffled growl, the white lycan crawled her way up the narrow tunnel of the den, and stepped out into the world, her world.
- We traced the primary crime scene back to a wild coyote den.
- In the extreme cold of the Arctic winter, hares dig dens in hardened drifts, and, while resting, they sit on their well-furred hind feet hunched into a heat-conserving ball.
- They also build dens in stream banks with the entrance underwater.
- Despite their tiny size, the naked mole-rat family den may stretch for 2 miles entirely underground, with various rooms.
- Inhabiting thick, wooded country and arid, shrubby areas, jaguars often make their dens in caves, or under overhanging rocks.
- One can also speculate that cubs emerging from dens in sub-optimal habitats would experience reduced survival.
- One smaller, rusty-colored female gathered up the younger pups and herded them back into the den.
Synonyms
lair, sett, earth, drey, lodge, burrow, hole, tunnel, cave, dugout, hollow, covert, shelter, hiding place, hideout
informal hidey-hole
1. 1.1informal A room or hideout where a person can go to relax or be private.
  〈非正式〉藏身处，蜗居地，私下活动场所
  Harriet built a den in a tree
  Example sentencesExamples
  Kyle stood and led the two out of the family room into the den, where all of his equipment was stored.
  She turned at the bottom of the stairs and passed through the den to the family room.
  LeeAnne doubled back and we all went through the living room into a den, which had been set up with streamers and things.
  To the right of the entrance hall is the original dining room, which has now become a den or winter sitting room with deep lilac walls and a dark wood fireplace.
  This room would also make an ideal den or music room for teenagers, as it is well away from the main reception area.
  The den, computer room, and bathroom were all empty.
  Had my father lived, he might have sought my advice the way Nancy's seeks hers, confiding his conflicts in private, in his den.
  So I looked on other shelves in the living room, in the den, in the bedroom, and in my office downstairs.
  Gabrielle entered what seem to be a den or second living room.
  Another flight of stairs leads to a good sized attic room which could suit a variety of uses - a den, games room, home office or perhaps a teenager's bedroom.
  Opposite the dining side of the living room is the den, entered by a wide doorway flanked by interior windows.
  This bedroom has both a bay and Velux window and could suit a variety of uses such as a den or games room.
  It is currently used as a home office although given its size it could also be used as a den, games room or sixth bedroom.
  After dinner the whole family split up between the den, family room and basement.
  It was about ten at night so everyone had already retired to their rooms or the den.
  Sean was in the den relaxing when he called out to me in the kitchen as I was preparing dinner.
  To the left were six rooms: a living room, a den, a dining area, a kitchen, and the final room was the entire width of the house.
  No one was in the living room, or the den, so I headed for the kitchen.
  These are the privileged few who had intimate meetings with the candidates in corporate suites and the private dens of the super rich.
  When my oldest daughter left home, I decided to turn her room into a small den.
  Synonyms
  study, studio, library
  sanctum, retreat, sanctuary, hideaway, snuggery, snug, cubbyhole
  North American cubby
  informal hidey-hole
  humorous sanctum sanctorum
2. 1.2 A place where people meet in secret, typically to engage in an illicit activity.
  （尤指不法分子聚集的）窝点，匪巢，贼窝
  an opium den
  鸦片窟。
  a den of iniquity
  罪恶之窝。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As she walked toward a dark alleyway containing a concealed entrance to the labyrinth of thieves' dens called the Maze, she bumped right into a young man in a City uniform, who said a nasty word.
  Now, it has descended into a public den of iniquity used by local youths who have no sense of propriety.
  Such was the popularity of these drinking dens that to meet the demand at the height of the boom in 1760, the Firth of Forth yielded 30 million oysters a year.
  Here some doctors worked clandestinely for the separatists and turned it into a den of separatist conspiracies.
  Not all entertainment businesses which cater to young people are dens of iniquity.
  The building was old and derelict, a suitable place for a den of thieves.
  He was sent undercover into the dens of iniquity that made the city famous.
  They alleged that surveillance indicated the venue was a den of iniquity and a haven for drug users and underage drinkers.
  The bar was condemned anew as a den of iniquity, black with the sins of alcohol and secondhand smoke.
  These are usually rather dark dens of iniquity, in my experience, but not so here.
  George and Tony took the gang back to their secret den to discuss what to do next.
  The commission has been looking into a myriad of claims centring on the fixing of races, bribery and gambling dens.
  With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity.
  The point might have been better made if this Elizabethan underworld wasn't depicted in a way that makes the average children's nursery look like a den of iniquity.
  The City had obtained search warrants for various sites suspected of being dens of criminal activity, said communication's officer for the city.
  It could be a special spot in the woods, or a secret den that you've built with friends.
  But Scrushy's incompetence went far beyond allowing a den of thieves to run amok in the finance department.
  Bombed-out buildings house dens of illicit commerce, while bridges and river banks swarm with a second society.
  Escaping to one of the ‘safe’ homes you find a den of thieves who trick you into handing over all your cash.
  Telecommunications have demystified what once were foreboding dens of iniquity - put more simply, the city is a less scary place to be.
  Synonyms
  haunt, site, patch, hotbed, cradle, nest, pit, hole
  place of crime, place of vice
  informal joint, dive, dump
2US A small subdivision of a Cub Scout pack.
〈主美〉（幼年童子军）小组，小队
Example sentencesExamples
- Cub Scouting members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys.
- Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee.

verbdens, denning, denned dɛndɛn

[no object]

(of a wild animal) live in a den.
（野兽）生活在隐蔽处，穴居
the cubs denned in the late autumn
幼仔深秋时节在洞穴中居住。
Example sentencesExamples
- Harington reported that extremely hard snow or very soft snow was unsuitable for denning.
- Polar bears denning in Norway and Russia near the North Pole carry some of the highest levels of toxic compounds ever found in living animals.
- Yearlings in both families rejoined the adult females after breakup and denned with their mothers as 2-year-olds.
- Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost.
- Most populations rely on terrestrial habitats for maternity denning and some take refuge on land in areas where the sea ice melts completely during summer.
- Two of the three largest known polar bear denning areas are on Wrangel Island and the Svalbard Archipelago.
- Polar bears denning in the area of the Simpson Peninsula, Nunavut
- Litter size was denned as the highest number of pups observed at any visit, which must be regarded as a minimum number.
- We identified 617 disturbances on 72 trees that occurred during the time of year when polar bears were denning in the area and which we were unable to attribute to any other source.
- A decline in body condition will reduce the proportion of pregnant females that are able to initiate denning.
- We attempted to enter the dens of all radio-collared females that denned with yearlings during the 2000 den season.
- African wild dogs den during the winter, from June to August, and on chilly July mornings the pups would huddle together until the urge to play overtook them.
- It is not clear whether, or where, those bears were denning before their return.
- This time he would stay until the snows came, to make sure the cubs denned up.
- The refuge also provides a year-round home for Musk oxen, a summer home to many migratory bird species, and is the largest polar bear denning area on land in the United States.
- Thus, we suspect that further searching for older den sites will confirm a longer history of maternity denning in this area than we have been able to confirm to date.
- Even within areas females are familiar with, there may be changes in the habitat available for maternity denning.
- We don't seem to see the same number of adult females and cubs as we used to in denning areas.
- ‘The coastal plain is the most significant on-land polar bear denning habitat in the U.S.,’ says the Wilderness Society.
- The area is so important for denning and spring forage that the Forest Service closes its access road from April 1 through July 30.

Origin

Old English denn, of Germanic origin; related to German Tenne 'threshing floor', also to dene¹.

Rhymes

Adrienne, again, amen, Ardennes, Behn, Ben, Benn, Bren, cayenne, Cévennes, Dairen, en, fen, gen, glen, Glenn, Guyenne, Gwen, hen, julienne, Karen, ken, Len, Loren, men, Nene, Ogaden, paren, pen, Penn, Phnom Penh, Rennes, Shenzhen, Sun Yat-sen, ten, then, Tlemcen, when, wren, yen, zazen, Zen

Definition of den in US English:

den

noundɛnden

1A wild animal's lair or habitation.
兽穴，兽窝
Example sentencesExamples
- Direct consequences of disturbing maternal dens may include den abandonment and mortality of young.
- On one such dive we see an abundance of lobsters which, quite unflustered, come out of their dens to observe us up close, not hesitating to touch my dome port with their antennae.
- During the 20th to 77th day, the pups leave the den for the first time and learn to play fight.
- Animal dens were encountered on the east rib, indicating that the pocket had another opening and would, we hoped, increase in size.
- The three females at this den were not seen with the pups at the same time.
- Eventually the bears were tranquilized Monday and moved to another den within their habitat, in hopes the pair would nod off to sleep again for another month.
- The girls were taught how to find the animals' dens and how to lay the traps.
- He pauses for a moment to watch a lizard climb up the trunk of the tree and stick its head into the hoopoe's den.
- During this ‘over-wintering period,’ the rattlesnakes don't hunt and rarely emerge from their den.
- We aren't too deep in the forest, and more often than not, the wild beasts do not come this far out from their lairs and dens.
- He had a dank odor about him like the smell of a wild animal's den.
- The new focus on animal burrows and dens places the police in the difficult position of explaining why these were not searched more thoroughly.
- When autumn arrived, so did a few thousand garter snakes, returning to their traditional winter den.
- Males and females mass together in the same dens, emerging from hibernation between late April and the end of May.
- Four days later, Shenk's team finds two more kittens at another high-altitude den.
- Nesting dens consist of two or three chambers lined with vegetation.
- It had obviously been used as a den by various animals in the past, but it seemed to be unoccupied at the moment.
- After parturition, pups remain in the den for approximately 30 days, and group members baby-sit the pups.
- Pups leave the den 4 or 5 weeks after birth and are fully weaned by 8 to 10 weeks.
- In one set of trials, the researchers left variously colored concrete bricks and tiles around the animals' underwater dens for a few days, until they became accustomed to the objects.
Synonyms
lair, sett, earth, drey, lodge, burrow, hole, tunnel, cave, dugout, hollow, covert, shelter, hiding place, hideout
1. 1.1informal A small, comfortable room in a house where a person can pursue an activity in private.
  〈非正式〉藏身处，蜗居地，私下活动场所
  Example sentencesExamples
  After dinner the whole family split up between the den, family room and basement.
  So I looked on other shelves in the living room, in the den, in the bedroom, and in my office downstairs.
  To the right of the entrance hall is the original dining room, which has now become a den or winter sitting room with deep lilac walls and a dark wood fireplace.
  Kyle stood and led the two out of the family room into the den, where all of his equipment was stored.
  She turned at the bottom of the stairs and passed through the den to the family room.
  When my oldest daughter left home, I decided to turn her room into a small den.
  LeeAnne doubled back and we all went through the living room into a den, which had been set up with streamers and things.
  Sean was in the den relaxing when he called out to me in the kitchen as I was preparing dinner.
  Opposite the dining side of the living room is the den, entered by a wide doorway flanked by interior windows.
  Gabrielle entered what seem to be a den or second living room.
  It was about ten at night so everyone had already retired to their rooms or the den.
  These are the privileged few who had intimate meetings with the candidates in corporate suites and the private dens of the super rich.
  It is currently used as a home office although given its size it could also be used as a den, games room or sixth bedroom.
  Another flight of stairs leads to a good sized attic room which could suit a variety of uses - a den, games room, home office or perhaps a teenager's bedroom.
  The den, computer room, and bathroom were all empty.
  This bedroom has both a bay and Velux window and could suit a variety of uses such as a den or games room.
  This room would also make an ideal den or music room for teenagers, as it is well away from the main reception area.
  To the left were six rooms: a living room, a den, a dining area, a kitchen, and the final room was the entire width of the house.
  No one was in the living room, or the den, so I headed for the kitchen.
  Had my father lived, he might have sought my advice the way Nancy's seeks hers, confiding his conflicts in private, in his den.
  Synonyms
  study, studio, library
2. 1.2 A place where people meet in secret, typically to engage in some illicit activity.
  （尤指不法分子聚集的）窝点，匪巢，贼窝
  an opium den
  鸦片窟。
  a den of iniquity
  罪恶之窝。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Telecommunications have demystified what once were foreboding dens of iniquity - put more simply, the city is a less scary place to be.
  As she walked toward a dark alleyway containing a concealed entrance to the labyrinth of thieves' dens called the Maze, she bumped right into a young man in a City uniform, who said a nasty word.
  It could be a special spot in the woods, or a secret den that you've built with friends.
  Not all entertainment businesses which cater to young people are dens of iniquity.
  The commission has been looking into a myriad of claims centring on the fixing of races, bribery and gambling dens.
  These are usually rather dark dens of iniquity, in my experience, but not so here.
  They alleged that surveillance indicated the venue was a den of iniquity and a haven for drug users and underage drinkers.
  Bombed-out buildings house dens of illicit commerce, while bridges and river banks swarm with a second society.
  The point might have been better made if this Elizabethan underworld wasn't depicted in a way that makes the average children's nursery look like a den of iniquity.
  The City had obtained search warrants for various sites suspected of being dens of criminal activity, said communication's officer for the city.
  Such was the popularity of these drinking dens that to meet the demand at the height of the boom in 1760, the Firth of Forth yielded 30 million oysters a year.
  But Scrushy's incompetence went far beyond allowing a den of thieves to run amok in the finance department.
  He was sent undercover into the dens of iniquity that made the city famous.
  Escaping to one of the ‘safe’ homes you find a den of thieves who trick you into handing over all your cash.
  The bar was condemned anew as a den of iniquity, black with the sins of alcohol and secondhand smoke.
  Here some doctors worked clandestinely for the separatists and turned it into a den of separatist conspiracies.
  Now, it has descended into a public den of iniquity used by local youths who have no sense of propriety.
  The building was old and derelict, a suitable place for a den of thieves.
  George and Tony took the gang back to their secret den to discuss what to do next.
  With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity.
  Synonyms
  haunt, site, patch, hotbed, cradle, nest, pit, hole
3. 1.3US A small subdivision of a Cub Scout pack.
  〈主美〉（幼年童子军）小组，小队
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cub Scouting members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys.
  Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee.

verbdɛnden

[no object]

(of a wild animal) live in or retreat to a den.
（野兽）生活在隐蔽处，穴居
the cubs denned in the late autumn
幼仔深秋时节在洞穴中居住。
Example sentencesExamples
- African wild dogs den during the winter, from June to August, and on chilly July mornings the pups would huddle together until the urge to play overtook them.
- This time he would stay until the snows came, to make sure the cubs denned up.
- Yearlings in both families rejoined the adult females after breakup and denned with their mothers as 2-year-olds.
- We identified 617 disturbances on 72 trees that occurred during the time of year when polar bears were denning in the area and which we were unable to attribute to any other source.
- Two of the three largest known polar bear denning areas are on Wrangel Island and the Svalbard Archipelago.
- The refuge also provides a year-round home for Musk oxen, a summer home to many migratory bird species, and is the largest polar bear denning area on land in the United States.
- Polar bears denning in Norway and Russia near the North Pole carry some of the highest levels of toxic compounds ever found in living animals.
- Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost.
- We attempted to enter the dens of all radio-collared females that denned with yearlings during the 2000 den season.
- Harington reported that extremely hard snow or very soft snow was unsuitable for denning.
- A decline in body condition will reduce the proportion of pregnant females that are able to initiate denning.
- Thus, we suspect that further searching for older den sites will confirm a longer history of maternity denning in this area than we have been able to confirm to date.
- Even within areas females are familiar with, there may be changes in the habitat available for maternity denning.
- It is not clear whether, or where, those bears were denning before their return.
- ‘The coastal plain is the most significant on-land polar bear denning habitat in the U.S.,’ says the Wilderness Society.
- Polar bears denning in the area of the Simpson Peninsula, Nunavut
- We don't seem to see the same number of adult females and cubs as we used to in denning areas.
- Litter size was denned as the highest number of pups observed at any visit, which must be regarded as a minimum number.
- Most populations rely on terrestrial habitats for maternity denning and some take refuge on land in areas where the sea ice melts completely during summer.
- The area is so important for denning and spring forage that the Forest Service closes its access road from April 1 through July 30.

Origin

Old English denn, of Germanic origin; related to German Tenne ‘threshing floor’, also to dene.

单词	den
释义	Definition of den in English: den nounPlural dens dɛndɛn 1A wild mammal's hidden home; a lair. 兽穴，兽窝 a female mink had set up her den there Example sentencesExamples The pups emerged from their protective den, pawing the earth in celebration. For example, everyone is familiar with kittens playing together, or has seen film of fox or wolf cubs wrestling and fighting at the mouth of the den. He studied their habits and habitats and knew exactly when the fox or badger was in the den or sett. Allen says it is not unusual to see ski tracks going right over a sleeping bear's den in the middle of winter. Others build dens in hollow logs, under tree roots, or in abandoned buildings. The spotted hyena spends its day in holes in the ground, or in rocky dens. When the weather improved they disappeared back to their dens or caves in the forests. Some terriers' tails were cropped because it made it easier for them to get into badger setts, fox dens and the like. Skunks, foxes, weasels, opossums and rabbits all use groundhog burrows for their dens. Colugos are nocturnal, passing the day in dens in hollow trees or suspended from branches. Bears will seldom den in habitat that is not capable of catching large snowdrifts. North American river otters build dens in the burrows of other mammals, in natural hollows, such as under a log, or in river banks. With a muffled growl, the white lycan crawled her way up the narrow tunnel of the den, and stepped out into the world, her world. We traced the primary crime scene back to a wild coyote den. In the extreme cold of the Arctic winter, hares dig dens in hardened drifts, and, while resting, they sit on their well-furred hind feet hunched into a heat-conserving ball. They also build dens in stream banks with the entrance underwater. Despite their tiny size, the naked mole-rat family den may stretch for 2 miles entirely underground, with various rooms. Inhabiting thick, wooded country and arid, shrubby areas, jaguars often make their dens in caves, or under overhanging rocks. One can also speculate that cubs emerging from dens in sub-optimal habitats would experience reduced survival. One smaller, rusty-colored female gathered up the younger pups and herded them back into the den. Synonyms lair, sett, earth, drey, lodge, burrow, hole, tunnel, cave, dugout, hollow, covert, shelter, hiding place, hideout informal hidey-hole 1.1informal A room or hideout where a person can go to relax or be private. 〈非正式〉藏身处，蜗居地，私下活动场所 Harriet built a den in a tree Example sentencesExamples Kyle stood and led the two out of the family room into the den, where all of his equipment was stored. She turned at the bottom of the stairs and passed through the den to the family room. LeeAnne doubled back and we all went through the living room into a den, which had been set up with streamers and things. To the right of the entrance hall is the original dining room, which has now become a den or winter sitting room with deep lilac walls and a dark wood fireplace. This room would also make an ideal den or music room for teenagers, as it is well away from the main reception area. The den, computer room, and bathroom were all empty. Had my father lived, he might have sought my advice the way Nancy's seeks hers, confiding his conflicts in private, in his den. So I looked on other shelves in the living room, in the den, in the bedroom, and in my office downstairs. Gabrielle entered what seem to be a den or second living room. Another flight of stairs leads to a good sized attic room which could suit a variety of uses - a den, games room, home office or perhaps a teenager's bedroom. Opposite the dining side of the living room is the den, entered by a wide doorway flanked by interior windows. This bedroom has both a bay and Velux window and could suit a variety of uses such as a den or games room. It is currently used as a home office although given its size it could also be used as a den, games room or sixth bedroom. After dinner the whole family split up between the den, family room and basement. It was about ten at night so everyone had already retired to their rooms or the den. Sean was in the den relaxing when he called out to me in the kitchen as I was preparing dinner. To the left were six rooms: a living room, a den, a dining area, a kitchen, and the final room was the entire width of the house. No one was in the living room, or the den, so I headed for the kitchen. These are the privileged few who had intimate meetings with the candidates in corporate suites and the private dens of the super rich. When my oldest daughter left home, I decided to turn her room into a small den. Synonyms study, studio, library sanctum, retreat, sanctuary, hideaway, snuggery, snug, cubbyhole North American cubby informal hidey-hole humorous sanctum sanctorum 1.2 A place where people meet in secret, typically to engage in an illicit activity. （尤指不法分子聚集的）窝点，匪巢，贼窝 an opium den 鸦片窟。 a den of iniquity 罪恶之窝。 Example sentencesExamples As she walked toward a dark alleyway containing a concealed entrance to the labyrinth of thieves' dens called the Maze, she bumped right into a young man in a City uniform, who said a nasty word. Now, it has descended into a public den of iniquity used by local youths who have no sense of propriety. Such was the popularity of these drinking dens that to meet the demand at the height of the boom in 1760, the Firth of Forth yielded 30 million oysters a year. Here some doctors worked clandestinely for the separatists and turned it into a den of separatist conspiracies. Not all entertainment businesses which cater to young people are dens of iniquity. The building was old and derelict, a suitable place for a den of thieves. He was sent undercover into the dens of iniquity that made the city famous. They alleged that surveillance indicated the venue was a den of iniquity and a haven for drug users and underage drinkers. The bar was condemned anew as a den of iniquity, black with the sins of alcohol and secondhand smoke. These are usually rather dark dens of iniquity, in my experience, but not so here. George and Tony took the gang back to their secret den to discuss what to do next. The commission has been looking into a myriad of claims centring on the fixing of races, bribery and gambling dens. With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity. The point might have been better made if this Elizabethan underworld wasn't depicted in a way that makes the average children's nursery look like a den of iniquity. The City had obtained search warrants for various sites suspected of being dens of criminal activity, said communication's officer for the city. It could be a special spot in the woods, or a secret den that you've built with friends. But Scrushy's incompetence went far beyond allowing a den of thieves to run amok in the finance department. Bombed-out buildings house dens of illicit commerce, while bridges and river banks swarm with a second society. Escaping to one of the ‘safe’ homes you find a den of thieves who trick you into handing over all your cash. Telecommunications have demystified what once were foreboding dens of iniquity - put more simply, the city is a less scary place to be. Synonyms haunt, site, patch, hotbed, cradle, nest, pit, hole place of crime, place of vice informal joint, dive, dump 2US A small subdivision of a Cub Scout pack. 〈主美〉（幼年童子军）小组，小队 Example sentencesExamples Cub Scouting members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys. Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee. verbdens, denning, denned dɛndɛn [no object] (of a wild animal) live in a den. （野兽）生活在隐蔽处，穴居 the cubs denned in the late autumn 幼仔深秋时节在洞穴中居住。 Example sentencesExamples Harington reported that extremely hard snow or very soft snow was unsuitable for denning. Polar bears denning in Norway and Russia near the North Pole carry some of the highest levels of toxic compounds ever found in living animals. Yearlings in both families rejoined the adult females after breakup and denned with their mothers as 2-year-olds. Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost. Most populations rely on terrestrial habitats for maternity denning and some take refuge on land in areas where the sea ice melts completely during summer. Two of the three largest known polar bear denning areas are on Wrangel Island and the Svalbard Archipelago. Polar bears denning in the area of the Simpson Peninsula, Nunavut Litter size was denned as the highest number of pups observed at any visit, which must be regarded as a minimum number. We identified 617 disturbances on 72 trees that occurred during the time of year when polar bears were denning in the area and which we were unable to attribute to any other source. A decline in body condition will reduce the proportion of pregnant females that are able to initiate denning. We attempted to enter the dens of all radio-collared females that denned with yearlings during the 2000 den season. African wild dogs den during the winter, from June to August, and on chilly July mornings the pups would huddle together until the urge to play overtook them. It is not clear whether, or where, those bears were denning before their return. This time he would stay until the snows came, to make sure the cubs denned up. The refuge also provides a year-round home for Musk oxen, a summer home to many migratory bird species, and is the largest polar bear denning area on land in the United States. Thus, we suspect that further searching for older den sites will confirm a longer history of maternity denning in this area than we have been able to confirm to date. Even within areas females are familiar with, there may be changes in the habitat available for maternity denning. We don't seem to see the same number of adult females and cubs as we used to in denning areas. ‘The coastal plain is the most significant on-land polar bear denning habitat in the U.S.,’ says the Wilderness Society. The area is so important for denning and spring forage that the Forest Service closes its access road from April 1 through July 30. Origin Old English denn, of Germanic origin; related to German Tenne 'threshing floor', also to dene¹. Rhymes Adrienne, again, amen, Ardennes, Behn, Ben, Benn, Bren, cayenne, Cévennes, Dairen, en, fen, gen, glen, Glenn, Guyenne, Gwen, hen, julienne, Karen, ken, Len, Loren, men, Nene, Ogaden, paren, pen, Penn, Phnom Penh, Rennes, Shenzhen, Sun Yat-sen, ten, then, Tlemcen, when, wren, yen, zazen, Zen Definition of den in US English: den noundɛnden 1A wild animal's lair or habitation. 兽穴，兽窝 Example sentencesExamples Direct consequences of disturbing maternal dens may include den abandonment and mortality of young. On one such dive we see an abundance of lobsters which, quite unflustered, come out of their dens to observe us up close, not hesitating to touch my dome port with their antennae. During the 20th to 77th day, the pups leave the den for the first time and learn to play fight. Animal dens were encountered on the east rib, indicating that the pocket had another opening and would, we hoped, increase in size. The three females at this den were not seen with the pups at the same time. Eventually the bears were tranquilized Monday and moved to another den within their habitat, in hopes the pair would nod off to sleep again for another month. The girls were taught how to find the animals' dens and how to lay the traps. He pauses for a moment to watch a lizard climb up the trunk of the tree and stick its head into the hoopoe's den. During this ‘over-wintering period,’ the rattlesnakes don't hunt and rarely emerge from their den. We aren't too deep in the forest, and more often than not, the wild beasts do not come this far out from their lairs and dens. He had a dank odor about him like the smell of a wild animal's den. The new focus on animal burrows and dens places the police in the difficult position of explaining why these were not searched more thoroughly. When autumn arrived, so did a few thousand garter snakes, returning to their traditional winter den. Males and females mass together in the same dens, emerging from hibernation between late April and the end of May. Four days later, Shenk's team finds two more kittens at another high-altitude den. Nesting dens consist of two or three chambers lined with vegetation. It had obviously been used as a den by various animals in the past, but it seemed to be unoccupied at the moment. After parturition, pups remain in the den for approximately 30 days, and group members baby-sit the pups. Pups leave the den 4 or 5 weeks after birth and are fully weaned by 8 to 10 weeks. In one set of trials, the researchers left variously colored concrete bricks and tiles around the animals' underwater dens for a few days, until they became accustomed to the objects. Synonyms lair, sett, earth, drey, lodge, burrow, hole, tunnel, cave, dugout, hollow, covert, shelter, hiding place, hideout 1.1informal A small, comfortable room in a house where a person can pursue an activity in private. 〈非正式〉藏身处，蜗居地，私下活动场所 Example sentencesExamples After dinner the whole family split up between the den, family room and basement. So I looked on other shelves in the living room, in the den, in the bedroom, and in my office downstairs. To the right of the entrance hall is the original dining room, which has now become a den or winter sitting room with deep lilac walls and a dark wood fireplace. Kyle stood and led the two out of the family room into the den, where all of his equipment was stored. She turned at the bottom of the stairs and passed through the den to the family room. When my oldest daughter left home, I decided to turn her room into a small den. LeeAnne doubled back and we all went through the living room into a den, which had been set up with streamers and things. Sean was in the den relaxing when he called out to me in the kitchen as I was preparing dinner. Opposite the dining side of the living room is the den, entered by a wide doorway flanked by interior windows. Gabrielle entered what seem to be a den or second living room. It was about ten at night so everyone had already retired to their rooms or the den. These are the privileged few who had intimate meetings with the candidates in corporate suites and the private dens of the super rich. It is currently used as a home office although given its size it could also be used as a den, games room or sixth bedroom. Another flight of stairs leads to a good sized attic room which could suit a variety of uses - a den, games room, home office or perhaps a teenager's bedroom. The den, computer room, and bathroom were all empty. This bedroom has both a bay and Velux window and could suit a variety of uses such as a den or games room. This room would also make an ideal den or music room for teenagers, as it is well away from the main reception area. To the left were six rooms: a living room, a den, a dining area, a kitchen, and the final room was the entire width of the house. No one was in the living room, or the den, so I headed for the kitchen. Had my father lived, he might have sought my advice the way Nancy's seeks hers, confiding his conflicts in private, in his den. Synonyms study, studio, library 1.2 A place where people meet in secret, typically to engage in some illicit activity. （尤指不法分子聚集的）窝点，匪巢，贼窝 an opium den 鸦片窟。 a den of iniquity 罪恶之窝。 Example sentencesExamples Telecommunications have demystified what once were foreboding dens of iniquity - put more simply, the city is a less scary place to be. As she walked toward a dark alleyway containing a concealed entrance to the labyrinth of thieves' dens called the Maze, she bumped right into a young man in a City uniform, who said a nasty word. It could be a special spot in the woods, or a secret den that you've built with friends. Not all entertainment businesses which cater to young people are dens of iniquity. The commission has been looking into a myriad of claims centring on the fixing of races, bribery and gambling dens. These are usually rather dark dens of iniquity, in my experience, but not so here. They alleged that surveillance indicated the venue was a den of iniquity and a haven for drug users and underage drinkers. Bombed-out buildings house dens of illicit commerce, while bridges and river banks swarm with a second society. The point might have been better made if this Elizabethan underworld wasn't depicted in a way that makes the average children's nursery look like a den of iniquity. The City had obtained search warrants for various sites suspected of being dens of criminal activity, said communication's officer for the city. Such was the popularity of these drinking dens that to meet the demand at the height of the boom in 1760, the Firth of Forth yielded 30 million oysters a year. But Scrushy's incompetence went far beyond allowing a den of thieves to run amok in the finance department. He was sent undercover into the dens of iniquity that made the city famous. Escaping to one of the ‘safe’ homes you find a den of thieves who trick you into handing over all your cash. The bar was condemned anew as a den of iniquity, black with the sins of alcohol and secondhand smoke. Here some doctors worked clandestinely for the separatists and turned it into a den of separatist conspiracies. Now, it has descended into a public den of iniquity used by local youths who have no sense of propriety. The building was old and derelict, a suitable place for a den of thieves. George and Tony took the gang back to their secret den to discuss what to do next. With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity. Synonyms haunt, site, patch, hotbed, cradle, nest, pit, hole 1.3US A small subdivision of a Cub Scout pack. 〈主美〉（幼年童子军）小组，小队 Example sentencesExamples Cub Scouting members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys. Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee. verbdɛnden [no object] (of a wild animal) live in or retreat to a den. （野兽）生活在隐蔽处，穴居 the cubs denned in the late autumn 幼仔深秋时节在洞穴中居住。 Example sentencesExamples African wild dogs den during the winter, from June to August, and on chilly July mornings the pups would huddle together until the urge to play overtook them. This time he would stay until the snows came, to make sure the cubs denned up. Yearlings in both families rejoined the adult females after breakup and denned with their mothers as 2-year-olds. We identified 617 disturbances on 72 trees that occurred during the time of year when polar bears were denning in the area and which we were unable to attribute to any other source. Two of the three largest known polar bear denning areas are on Wrangel Island and the Svalbard Archipelago. The refuge also provides a year-round home for Musk oxen, a summer home to many migratory bird species, and is the largest polar bear denning area on land in the United States. Polar bears denning in Norway and Russia near the North Pole carry some of the highest levels of toxic compounds ever found in living animals. Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost. We attempted to enter the dens of all radio-collared females that denned with yearlings during the 2000 den season. Harington reported that extremely hard snow or very soft snow was unsuitable for denning. A decline in body condition will reduce the proportion of pregnant females that are able to initiate denning. Thus, we suspect that further searching for older den sites will confirm a longer history of maternity denning in this area than we have been able to confirm to date. Even within areas females are familiar with, there may be changes in the habitat available for maternity denning. It is not clear whether, or where, those bears were denning before their return. ‘The coastal plain is the most significant on-land polar bear denning habitat in the U.S.,’ says the Wilderness Society. Polar bears denning in the area of the Simpson Peninsula, Nunavut We don't seem to see the same number of adult females and cubs as we used to in denning areas. Litter size was denned as the highest number of pups observed at any visit, which must be regarded as a minimum number. Most populations rely on terrestrial habitats for maternity denning and some take refuge on land in areas where the sea ice melts completely during summer. The area is so important for denning and spring forage that the Forest Service closes its access road from April 1 through July 30. Origin Old English denn, of Germanic origin; related to German Tenne ‘threshing floor’, also to dene.
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