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warren

warren

2 6.3
A group of connected underground tunnels where rabbits live
  • noun
  • /ˈwɔrən/
translation icon : túnel de conejos
  • Run to the warren and get the others.
  • rabbit warren
  • warren of tunnels
  • an underground warren

I thought I believed it was a portal into Omtos Felak, which is the Warren where the the yahood could have lived.

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Examples

  • Puzzled, he winds his way back into the warren of bubbling, burping fish tanks, following a pale track worn through the green shag carpeting.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Let's drive them out - take their warren and live there ourselves.

  • This is rather a big warren.

  • I had expected something grand, I suppose, but it was like a rabbit warren, with lots of doors along the halls.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • If they were heading into this rabbit warren of narrow lanes, he could not maintain visual contact without getting closer.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Instead, it's tunnels, dead ends, a maze, a rabbit's warren.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Head for the warrens!

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Since all policemen everywhere are compulsive about paperwork, we were fairly sure that somewhere in that rabbit warren of a building was a set of files that would identify the people we wanted to talk with.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Through the heat of the following day, Rattler remained in the warren, slowly digesting the baby heron and dozing off at intervals.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The rabbit burrowed deep into the warren, where it could hide from predators.

Synonyms

rabbit warren
vswarren
6.1

Underground tunnels where wild rabbits live

is the general name that omits naming the animal inhabitants

Compounds

Underground tunnels where wild rabbits live

rabbit warren
  • Informal
7.5

A crowded maze of small houses and narrow streets

A confusing group of narrow winding streets that twist and turn

How Complex

warren
2 6.3
burrow
25 2.7
hole
1.0

Surface Forms

warren singular
warrens plural

Etymology

Warren comes from an old word for a 'game park' where people kept rabbits, so it became used for the rabbit burrows themselves. That's why a warren is a network of tunnels and burrows where many rabbits live.