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warren

warren

2 6.3
A group of connected underground tunnels where rabbits live
  • noun
  • /ˈwɔrən/
: 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
1 6.1

Underground tunnels where wild rabbits live

is the general name that omits naming the animal inhabitants

Compounds

rabbit warren
  • Informal
1 7.5

A crowded maze of small houses and narrow streets

A confusing group of narrow winding streets that twist and turn

Underground tunnels where wild rabbits live

How Complex

warren
2 6.3
burrow
19 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.