A fox smells its own lair first.
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Lair
//lɛə//
Synonyms for "lair" (83 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
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2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
4 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
85 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φωλεός noun (of an animal)
Armenian
1 entries- որջ noun (of an animal)
Bashkir
1 entries- оя noun (of an animal)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бърлога noun (of an animal)
- леговище noun (of an animal)
- скривалище noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Catalan
2 entries- cau noun (of an animal)
- cau noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 巢穴 noun (of an animal)
- 獸穴 /兽穴 noun (of an animal)
- 獸窟 /兽窟 noun (of an animal)
- 獸窩 /兽窝 noun (of an animal)
Czech
1 entries- doupě noun (of an animal)
Danish
4 entries- hi noun (of an animal)
- hi noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- hule noun (of an animal)
- leje noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Dutch
3 entries- hol noun (of an animal)
- leger noun (of an animal)
- schuilplaats noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Finnish
3 entries- pesä noun (of an animal)
- piilo noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- piilopaikka noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
French
4 entries- antre noun (of an animal)
- antre noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- repaire noun (of an animal)
- tanière noun (of an animal)
Georgian
2 entries- ბუნაგი noun (of an animal)
- სორო noun (of an animal)
German
2 entries- Bau noun (of an animal)
- Höhle noun (of an animal)
Greek
2 entries- κρησφύγετο noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- λημέρι noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְאוּרָה noun (of an animal)
Hindi
1 entries- मांद noun (of an animal)
Hungarian
4 entries- búvóhely noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- odú noun (of an animal)
- rejtekhely noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- vacok noun (of an animal)
Irish
3 entries- brocais noun (of an animal)
- cró folaigh noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- leaba dhearg noun (of an animal)
Italian
2 entries- covo noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- tana noun (of an animal)
Japanese
1 entries- 巣窟 noun (of an animal)
Latin
2 entries- lustrum noun (of an animal)
- lustrum noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Latvian
1 entries- miga noun (of an animal)
Māori
1 entries- kuhunga noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hi noun (of an animal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- hi noun (of an animal)
Ojibwe
2 entries- waanzh noun (of an animal)
- waazh noun (of an animal)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- این noun (of an animal)
Portuguese
3 entries- covil noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- esconderijo noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- toca noun (of an animal)
Romanian
1 entries- vizuină noun (of an animal)
Russian
4 entries- берло́га noun (of an animal)
- ло́гово noun (of an animal)
- ло́гово noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- нора́ noun (of an animal)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bŕlog noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- jȁma noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- jȁzbina noun (of an animal)
- jȁzbina noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Slovak
1 entries- brloh noun (of an animal)
Slovene
2 entries- brlog noun (of an animal)
- brlog noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
Spanish
4 entries- escondite noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- guarida noun (of an animal)
- guarida noun (of a criminal, hero/superhero etc.)
- madriguera noun (of an animal)
Swedish
4 entries- bohåla noun (of an animal)
- gryt noun (of an animal)
- håla noun (of an animal)
- kula noun (of an animal)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
The octopus only exits its lair to look for food or for reproductive purposes.
Source: tatoeba (1671307)
The Cyclops lifted his cyclopean body out of his cyclopean bed and set about to the cyclopean task of cleaning up the entirety of his cyclopean lair.
Source: tatoeba (2621379)
Wolverines make their lair under torn-out roots, in rock crevices and in other secluded spots.
Source: tatoeba (3322487)
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