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warren

noun

war·​ren ˈwȯr-ən How to pronounce warren (audio)
ˈwär-
1
chiefly British
a
: a place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant)
b
: the privilege of hunting game in such a warren
2
a(1)
: an area (as of uncultivated ground) where rabbits breed
(2)
: a structure where rabbits are kept or bred
b
: the rabbits of a warren
3
a
: a crowded tenement or district
b
: a maze of passageways or small rooms

Example Sentences

a warren of narrow hallways got lost in the warren of interconnected side streets
Recent Examples on the Web Most of the scenes at Original Beef of Chicagoland were shot in its kitchen: a typical warren of small rooms, functional but grubby and full of hazards: tight corners, sharp knives, high shelves and hot pans. New York Times, 11 July 2022 Reducing wake turbulence throughout a wind farm improves the collective performance, as the scientists’ algorithm allows wind farms to steer the turbulent wake in the most efficient way possible through a warren of turbines. David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022 In a warren of low, mud-walled houses on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Basmina prepares an evening meal of eggs, a small bowl of beans and two flatbreads. Jo Shelley, Christiane Amanpour And Ahmet Mengli, CNN, 22 May 2022 By early Tuesday, many of the fighters ensconced in a warren of shelters under the Azovstal steel mill, a Soviet-era complex besieged by the Russians for weeks, had emerged and surrendered. New York Times, 17 May 2022 It’s the first genuinely warm spring morning at London’s Soho Hotel, and the stars of Netflix’s Anatomy of a Scandal are unusually thrilled to be staring down hours of press interviews in its warren of rooms. Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2022 And that brightly lighted, soulless, windowless basement warren of hallways and offices is something else. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022 Then there’s the warren of interconnected spaces, some joined by trap doors, that paints Bobbie’s path to companionship as a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Chutes and Ladders. New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021 Guests board the boats of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride only after walking through a warren lit by lanterns and piled up with cannonballs and wooden barrels. Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English wareine, from Anglo-French warenne, garenne

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of warren was in the 14th century

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