lairs
Meaning of lairs
- a place where a wild animal, especially a fierce or dangerous one, lives.
he saw that his dogs had roused a wild boar from its lair
the hero goes off to find the dragon's lair
- a burial plot in a graveyard.
their ashes now lie buried in a lair in the Glasgow necropolis
Old English leger ‘resting place, bed’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leger ‘bed, camp’ and German Lager ‘storehouse’, also to lie1. Compare with laager, lager.
plural noun
a flashily dressed man who enjoys showing off.
verb, 3rd person present- dress or behave in a flashy manner.
some of us laired up in Assam silk suits
1930s: back-formation from lairy.
Information about lairs
- The singular form of lairs is: lair.
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Hyphenation of lairs
lairs
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- lairs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
lairs synonyms
Meaning a wild mammal's hidden home; a lair:
Meaning a hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling:
Meaning an animal's burrow:
Meaning the way, direction, or position in which something lies:
Meaning a thicket in which game can hide:
Meaning an artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river:
Meaning a trench that is dug and roofed over as a shelter for troops:
Meaning a hole or depression in something:
Meaning a natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff:
Meaning a place frequented by a specified person:
Anagrams of lairs
arils, Arlis, Laris, laris, liars, liras, rails, rials
Words that rhyme with lairs
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