Lair
noun
The home or shelter of a wild animal.
The fox returns to its lair after hunting.
Often appears as...
- animal lair
- secret lair
noun
A place where someone hides or where they go to be alone and feel safe.
His apartment served as both his workspace and his lair.
Often appears as...
- man's lair
- child's lair
noun
A place where someone behaves secretly, often doing something wrong or illegal.
The police eventually discovered the criminal's lair.
Often appears as...
- criminal's lair
- villain's lair
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
The home or shelter of a wild animal.
The fox returns to its lair after hunting.
Often appears as...
- animal lair
- secret lair
noun
A place where someone hides or where they go to be alone and feel safe.
His apartment served as both his workspace and his lair.
Often appears as...
- man's lair
- child's lair
noun
A place where someone behaves secretly, often doing something wrong or illegal.
The police eventually discovered the criminal's lair.
Often appears as...
- criminal's lair
- villain's lair
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Wild setting
Used for places in nature where animals live and hide.
We stumbled upon a bear lair in the woods.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural habitat
Emphasizes the lair as part of an animal's natural lifestyle.
Observing the lynx in its lair offers insights into its behavior.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for humans
Lair suggests a place for animals, not typically used for human homes.
They joked about his messy room being a lair.
Pro Tip 1/3Wild setting
Used for places in nature where animals live and hide.
We stumbled upon a bear lair in the woods.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural habitat
Emphasizes the lair as part of an animal's natural lifestyle.
Observing the lynx in its lair offers insights into its behavior.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for humans
Lair suggests a place for animals, not typically used for human homes.
They joked about his messy room being a lair.
Pro Tip 1/3Wild setting
Used for places in nature where animals live and hide.
We stumbled upon a bear lair in the woods.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural habitat
Emphasizes the lair as part of an animal's natural lifestyle.
Observing the lynx in its lair offers insights into its behavior.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for humans
Lair suggests a place for animals, not typically used for human homes.
They joked about his messy room being a lair.
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Video examples
Coconut Crabs Devour Pig...
thing you've ever seen. But it is very enlightening. With help from their smaller strawberry hermit crab cousins, they devour the carcass within a week, carrying the bones every which way into their lairs. The scientists are now thinking something
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
because the venom nixes its motivation to walk, and only that. The wasp basically un-checks the escape-from-danger box in the roach's operating system, allowing her to lead her helpless victim back to her lair by its antennae
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Polar Bear Mom and Cubs...
learn in the world well like for example what we like to call lair crashing lair crashing is where mom teaches the kids how to jump up and down on the ice so they can break through to eat the seal pups below
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Polar Bear Moms and Cubs...
learn in the world well like for example what we like to call lair crashing lair crashing is where mom teaches the kids how to jump up and down on the ice so they can break through to eat the seal hubs below
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Squirrels Just Wanna...
but mom's not and she alerts the babies the long-nosed snake wants to squeeze the life out of her kids at her signal they retreat to their lair
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Can you solve the...
The greatest challenge a vampire hunter can take on is to bring sunlight into a vampire's lair.
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Snow Leopard Hunting PIPE...
A snow leopard, the rarest of Himalayan animals. It's a female returning to her lair.
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Nail-Biting Leopard...
a snow leopard the rarest of himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair
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A Collection Of Autumn...
a snow leopard the rarest of himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
a Snow Leopard the rarest of Himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair
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Coconut Crabs Devour Pig...
thing you've ever seen. But it is very enlightening. With help from their smaller strawberry hermit crab cousins, they devour the carcass within a week, carrying the bones every which way into their lairs. The scientists are now thinking something
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
because the venom nixes its motivation to walk, and only that. The wasp basically un-checks the escape-from-danger box in the roach's operating system, allowing her to lead her helpless victim back to her lair by its antennae
Video examples
Polar Bear Mom and Cubs...
learn in the world well like for example what we like to call lair crashing lair crashing is where mom teaches the kids how to jump up and down on the ice so they can break through to eat the seal pups below
Video examples
Polar Bear Moms and Cubs...
learn in the world well like for example what we like to call lair crashing lair crashing is where mom teaches the kids how to jump up and down on the ice so they can break through to eat the seal hubs below
Video examples
Squirrels Just Wanna...
but mom's not and she alerts the babies the long-nosed snake wants to squeeze the life out of her kids at her signal they retreat to their lair
Video examples
Can you solve the...
The greatest challenge a vampire hunter can take on is to bring sunlight into a vampire's lair.
Video examples
Snow Leopard Hunting PIPE...
A snow leopard, the rarest of Himalayan animals. It's a female returning to her lair.
Video examples
Nail-Biting Leopard...
a snow leopard the rarest of himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair
Video examples
A Collection Of Autumn...
a snow leopard the rarest of himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
a Snow Leopard the rarest of Himalayan animals it's a female returning to her lair
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Quote examples
Kevin Barry
Irish Author
I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It's more than an expression of physical weariness - it's an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
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Michael Paterniti
American Writer
When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.
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Jane Goldman
English Writer
It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!
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Bodhidharma
Indian Leader
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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Whitney Houston
American Musician
I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
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Kevin Barry
Irish Author
I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It's more than an expression of physical weariness - it's an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
Quote examples
Michael Paterniti
American Writer
When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.
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Jane Goldman
English Writer
It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!
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Bodhidharma
Indian Leader
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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Whitney Houston
American Musician
I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
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