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lairs

Meaning of lairs

plural noun
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. 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.

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:

den

Meaning a hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling:

burrow

Meaning an animal's burrow:

hole

Meaning the way, direction, or position in which something lies:

lie

Meaning a thicket in which game can hide:

covert

Meaning an artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river:

tunnel

Meaning a trench that is dug and roofed over as a shelter for troops:

dugout

Meaning a hole or depression in something:

hollow

Meaning a natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff:

cave

Meaning a place frequented by a specified person:

haunt