warren
Meanings
Plural: warrens
Noun
- United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
- United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
- a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
- an overcrowded residential area
- a colony of rabbits
- A system of burrows in which rabbits live.
- A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
- The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.
- A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
- The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English warenne, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French warenne (compare Old French guarenne, garenne (“game-park”)), probably ultimately from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“ward off, defend against”); compare also Old French warir, guarir, a borrowing from this Germanic root. Alternatively from Gaulish *warrennā (“enclosed area”), from *warros (“stick, post”), Proto-Celtic *warrā (“post, prop”).
Synonyms
Earl Warren, rabbit warren, Robert Penn Warren
Scrabble Score: 9
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