Synonyms for nest
nɛstnest

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1. nestnoun

   a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

2. nestnoun

   a kind of gun emplacement

   "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers"

3. nestnoun

   a cosy or secluded retreat

4. nestnoun

   a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality

   "a nest of thieves"

5. nestverb

   furniture pieces made to fit close together

6. nestverb

   inhabit a nest, usually after building

   "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring"

   Synonyms:
   snuggle, nuzzle, nestle, draw close, cuddle

7. nestverb

   fit together or fit inside

   "nested bowls"

   Synonyms:
   snuggle, nuzzle, nestle, draw close, cuddle

8. cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw closeverb

   move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position

   "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"

   Synonyms:
   come near, approach, nuzzle, nose, cuddle, snuggle, draw near, nestle, come on, near, go up, draw close

9. nestverb

   gather nests

   Synonyms:
   snuggle, nuzzle, nestle, draw close, cuddle

Matched Categories

1. • Cling To
   • Embed
   • Gang
   • Gather
   • Gun Emplacement
   • Inhabit
   • Natural Object
   • Retreat
   • Terrorism

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1. nestnoun

   Synonyms:
   AERIE

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1. nestnoun

   Synonyms:
   nidus, eyrie, aerie, retreat, den, haunt, resort

   Associated words:
   nidificate, nidification, neossine, caliology, cubilose, nidulant

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1. List of paraphrases for "nest":

   nesting, nests, nid, breed, foxhole, breeding, niche, nestling, redd, doghouse, mountaintop, pid, nested, nld

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1. George Eliot:

   Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

2. Rig Veda:

   Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

3. John Lennon:

   We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

4. Sven Spichiger:

   We did get an initial direction of the flight, we were able to meet with several of the property owners and get a few more eyewitness accounts of seeing hornets earlier the week before or earlier in the summer, and so we are starting to narrow down exactly where the hornets' nest is.

5. William Blake:

   The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.