warren
3
8.1
- noun
- /ˈwɔrən/
- More relatives crowded the warrens: my aunt's family and her four adolescent children.
Examples
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The warren of workspaces in the graphics room was quiet, the hall empty.
Fiction book (1993) -
Joe is ushered through the fluorescent-lit warren that is the bullpen of the New York FBI office.
Fiction book (1997) -
No idea where "here" was, except somewhere in the warrens of the White Chamber.
Fiction book (2000) -
The building was deeper than it had appeared to be, a warren of rooms that ran back behind the cordage company.
Fiction book (1998) -
An endless warren of corridors and shelves.
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In a short time, he sniffed out the boy in a warren of shanties.
Fiction book (1992) -
Geoffrey continues scouting the warren of tiny rooms that run off the central courtyard.
Fiction book (1996) -
Kenny moves hard and fast through the twisting warren of hallways and tiny offices, which is the West Wing.
Fiction book (2000) -
James follows Vaughan down a cramped corridor to a photographic workshop formed out of a warren of small rooms.
Fiction book (1996) -
The neighborhood was a crowded warren of small apartments where families lived closely together.
Synonyms
A crowded maze of small houses and narrow streets
Antonyms
Compounds
How Crowded
Surface Forms
Etymology
Warren was first used for places where rabbits lived, and people later used it for crowded houses that are like a maze because the many small rooms and paths look like rabbit tunnels. So a warren can mean an area or building packed with people living close together.