The hen was sitting on the eggs in the nest.
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Nest
//nɛst//
Synonyms for "nest" (185 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (37)
Strong matches (56)
Related words (92)
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Noun(2 words)
Verb(5 words)
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More general
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
81 entriesShowing 16 of 81 words.
distinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
6 entriesis a
8 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
434 entriesShowing 16 of 434 words.
similar
3 entriesTranslations
482 translations across 204 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- ахтәалара noun (bird-built structure)
Acehnese
1 entries- eumpung noun (bird-built structure)
Afrikaans
1 entries- nes noun (bird-built structure)
Albanian
1 entries- fole noun (bird-built structure)
Amharic
1 entries- ጎጆ noun (bird-built structure)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νεοσσιά noun (bird-built structure)
Ao
1 entries- tesep noun (bird-built structure)
Arabic
4 entries- أَعْشَاش noun (bird-built structure)
- عش noun (bird-built structure)
- عُشّ noun (bird-built structure)
- عُشّ noun (place for depositing eggs)
Aragonese
1 entries- niedo noun (bird-built structure)
Armenian
3 entries- բույն noun (bird-built structure)
- բույն noun (place for depositing eggs)
- բնադրել verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Aromanian
2 entries- cuib noun (bird-built structure)
- cuibar noun (bird-built structure)
Assamese
1 entries- বাহ noun (bird-built structure)
Asturian
3 entries- nieru noun (bird-built structure)
- níu noun (bird-built structure)
- ñíu noun (bird-built structure)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yuva noun (bird-built structure)
Bangi
1 entries- zumbu noun (bird-built structure)
Bashkir
2 entries- оя noun (bird-built structure)
- оя noun (place for depositing eggs)
Belarusian
1 entries- гняздо́ noun (bird-built structure)
Bengali
2 entries- আবাস noun (bird-built structure)
- নীড় noun (bird-built structure)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- घोंसला noun (bird-built structure)
Bikol Central
2 entries- salag noun (bird-built structure)
- tataghan noun (bird-built structure)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гнездо́ noun (bird-built structure)
- гнездо́ noun (snug residence)
- гнездо́ noun (military: fortified position for a weapon)
- по́лог noun (place for depositing eggs)
Burmese
3 entries- မြုံ noun (bird-built structure)
- သိုက် noun (bird-built structure)
- အသိုက် noun (bird-built structure)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- niu noun (bird-built structure)
Canela
1 entries- jahê noun (bird-built structure)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- гнїздо́ noun (bird-built structure)
Catalan
2 entries- niu noun (bird-built structure)
- niu noun (place for depositing eggs)
Cebuano
1 entries- salag noun (bird-built structure)
Central Kurdish
3 entries- لانە noun (bird-built structure)
- ھێلانە noun (bird-built structure)
- ھێلانە noun (place for depositing eggs)
Central Sierra Miwok
1 entries- hé·sa noun (bird-built structure)
Chadian Arabic
1 entries- عش noun (bird-built structure)
Chamicuro
1 entries- imajka noun (bird-built structure)
Chechen
1 entries- бен noun (bird-built structure)
Chinese
2 entries- вә noun (bird-built structure)
- 岫 noun (bird-built structure)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 竇 /窦 noun (bird-built structure)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 巢 noun (bird-built structure)
- 窩 /窝 noun (bird-built structure)
- 鳥巢 /鸟巢 noun (bird-built structure)
- 築巢 /筑巢 verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Chukchi
1 entries- кытчыгъёԓгын noun (bird-built structure)
Church Slavic
2 entries- гнѣздо noun (bird-built structure)
- ⰳⱀⱑⰸⰴⱁ noun (bird-built structure)
Corsican
1 entries- nidu noun (bird-built structure)
Czech
4 entries- hnízdečko noun (snug residence)
- hnízdo noun (bird-built structure)
- hnízdo noun (place for depositing eggs)
- hnízdo noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
Dalmatian
1 entries- naid noun (bird-built structure)
Danish
3 entries- fuglerede noun (bird-built structure)
- rede noun (bird-built structure)
- bygge rede verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Dutch
4 entries- nest noun (bird-built structure)
- nest noun (place for depositing eggs)
- nest noun (snug residence)
- nest noun (retreat)
Eastern Khanty
1 entries- тыӽәԓ noun (bird-built structure)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- пыжаш noun (bird-built structure)
Erzya
3 entries- пизэ noun (bird-built structure)
- пизэ noun (place for depositing eggs)
- пизэ noun (snug residence)
Esperanto
4 entries- nesto noun (bird-built structure)
- nesto noun (place for depositing eggs)
- nesto noun (snug residence)
- nesto noun (retreat)
Estonian
1 entries- pesa noun (bird-built structure)
Evenki
2 entries- умук noun (bird-built structure)
- хуги noun (bird-built structure)
Extremaduran
1 entries- ñiu noun (bird-built structure)
Faroese
3 entries- reiður noun (bird-built structure)
- byggja verb (to build or settle into a nest)
- reiðrast verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Fataluku
1 entries- vari noun (bird-built structure)
Finnish
4 entries- kolo noun (place for depositing eggs)
- kotipesä noun (retreat)
- pesä noun (bird-built structure)
- pesä noun (place for depositing eggs)
French
4 entries- chez-moi noun (snug residence)
- chez-soi noun (snug residence)
- nid noun (bird-built structure)
- nid noun (place for depositing eggs)
Friulian
2 entries- nîd noun (bird-built structure)
- nît noun (bird-built structure)
Galician
4 entries- abeiro noun (retreat)
- acolleito noun (retreat)
- buxío noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
- cabouco noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
Georgian
1 entries- ბუდე noun (bird-built structure)
German
4 entries- Nest noun (bird-built structure)
- Nest noun (place for depositing eggs)
- Nest noun (snug residence)
- Nest noun (retreat)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍃𐌹𐍄𐌻𐍃 noun (bird-built structure)
Greek
4 entries- φωλιά noun (bird-built structure)
- φωλιά noun (place for depositing eggs)
- φωλιά noun (snug residence)
- φωλιά noun (retreat)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- nich noun (bird-built structure)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pūnana noun (bird-built structure)
Hebrew
2 entries- מַחְבּוֹא noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
- קֵן noun (bird-built structure)
Higaonon
1 entries- salag noun (bird-built structure)
Hindi
2 entries- घोंसला noun (bird-built structure)
- घोसला noun (bird-built structure)
Hungarian
4 entries- fészek noun (bird-built structure)
- egymásba rak verb (to successively place inside another)
- fészkel verb (to settle into a home)
- fészket rak verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Icelandic
1 entries- hreiður noun (bird-built structure)
Ido
3 entries- nesto noun (bird-built structure)
- ucelonesto noun (bird-built structure)
- nestifar verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Indonesian
1 entries- sarang noun (bird-built structure)
Ingrian
1 entries- pesä noun (bird-built structure)
Ingush
1 entries- бӏи noun (bird-built structure)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- آشْیانِه noun (bird-built structure)
- لانِه noun (bird-built structure)
Irish
3 entries- nead noun (bird-built structure)
- nead noun (place for depositing eggs)
- sead noun (bird-built structure)
Italian
4 entries- nido noun (bird-built structure)
- nido noun (place for depositing eggs)
- nido noun (snug residence)
- nido noun (retreat)
Japanese
4 entries- ネスト noun (bird-built structure)
- 巣 noun (bird-built structure)
- 巣 noun (place for depositing eggs)
- 巣 noun (snug residence)
Javanese
1 entries- susuh noun (bird-built structure)
Kalmyk
1 entries- үр noun (bird-built structure)
Kannada
1 entries- ಗೂಡು noun (bird-built structure)
Karelian
1 entries- pezä noun (bird-built structure)
Kashubian
1 entries- gniôzdo noun (bird-built structure)
Kayapó
1 entries- jaê noun (bird-built structure)
Kazakh
1 entries- ұя noun (bird-built structure)
Khiamniungan Naga
2 entries- māujám noun (place for depositing eggs)
- vēu-àp noun (bird-built structure)
Khmer
2 entries- ទ្រនំ noun (bird-built structure)
- សំបុក noun (place for depositing eggs)
Komi-Zyrian
1 entries- поз noun (bird-built structure)
Korean
4 entries- 둥지 noun (bird-built structure)
- 둥지 noun (place for depositing eggs)
- 둥지 noun (snug residence)
- 보금자리 noun (bird-built structure)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- уя noun (bird-built structure)
Lakota
1 entries- hoȟpi noun (bird-built structure)
Lao
1 entries- ຮັງ noun (bird-built structure)
Latgalian
2 entries- pereklis noun (bird-built structure)
- pereklis noun (place for depositing eggs)
Latin
2 entries- nīdus noun (bird-built structure)
- nīdus noun (place for depositing eggs)
Latvian
3 entries- ligzda noun (bird-built structure)
- lizda noun (bird-built structure)
- lizda noun (bird-built structure)
Lezgi
1 entries- муг noun (bird-built structure)
Ligurian
1 entries- nïo noun (bird-built structure)
Lingala
1 entries- zombo noun (bird-built structure)
Lithuanian
1 entries- lizdas noun (bird-built structure)
Livonian
1 entries- piezā noun (bird-built structure)
Lombard
1 entries- nid noun (bird-built structure)
Low German
2 entries- nesten verb (to build or settle into a nest)
- nössen verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- gnězdo noun (bird-built structure)
Ludian
1 entries- peza noun (bird-built structure)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Nascht noun (bird-built structure)
- Nascht noun (place for depositing eggs)
Lü
1 entries- ᦣᧂ noun (bird-built structure)
Macedonian
4 entries- гнездо noun (bird-built structure)
- гнездо noun (place for depositing eggs)
- гнездо noun (snug residence)
- скрива́лиште noun (retreat)
Maguindanao
1 entries- salag noun (bird-built structure)
Makasae
1 entries- wari noun (bird-built structure)
Malay
1 entries- sarang noun (bird-built structure)
Malayalam
1 entries- കൂട് noun (bird-built structure)
Maltese
2 entries- bejta noun (bird-built structure)
- bejta noun (place for depositing eggs)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡶᡝᠶᡝ noun (bird-built structure)
Mansaka
1 entries- pogad noun (bird-built structure)
Maranao
1 entries- salag noun (bird-built structure)
Marathi
1 entries- घरटे noun (bird-built structure)
Minangkabau
1 entries- sarang noun (bird-built structure)
Moksha
1 entries- пиза noun (bird-built structure)
Mongolian
2 entries- үүр noun (bird-built structure)
- ᠡᠭᠦᠷ noun (bird-built structure)
Māori
4 entries- kōhanga noun (bird-built structure)
- kōhanga noun (bird-built structure)
- kōhanga noun (place for depositing eggs)
- kōpae noun (bird-built structure)
Nanai
1 entries- омо noun (bird-built structure)
Navajo
1 entries- atʼoh noun (bird-built structure)
Nepali
1 entries- गुँड noun (bird-built structure)
Nga La
2 entries- bu noun (bird-built structure)
- vaa-bu noun (bird-built structure)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- traya noun (bird-built structure)
Nogai
1 entries- уя noun (bird-built structure)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hêlîn noun (bird-built structure)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᩁᩢ᩠ᨦ noun (bird-built structure)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- fuglerede noun (bird-built structure)
- fuglereir noun (bird-built structure)
- rede noun (bird-built structure)
- rede noun (place for depositing eggs)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- fuglereir noun (bird-built structure)
- reir noun (bird-built structure)
- reir noun (place for depositing eggs)
Occitan
1 entries- nis noun (bird-built structure)
Ojibwe
1 entries- zasaanh noun (bird-built structure)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- гнѣздо noun (bird-built structure)
Old English
2 entries- nest noun (bird-built structure)
- nest noun (place for depositing eggs)
Oromo
1 entries- mandhee noun (bird-built structure)
Osage
2 entries- hcí noun (bird-built structure)
- hcí noun (snug residence)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- یوا noun (bird-built structure)
- یوالامق verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Pangasinan
4 entries- abong noun (bird-built structure)
- balaong noun (bird-built structure)
- balolang noun (bird-built structure)
- kalaba noun (bird-built structure)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- гнїздо noun (bird-built structure)
Papiamentu
1 entries- nèshi noun (bird-built structure)
Pashto
1 entries- ځاله noun (bird-built structure)
Piedmontese
1 entries- ni noun (bird-built structure)
Pitjantjatjara
1 entries- mina noun (bird-built structure)
Polish
4 entries- gniazdko noun (snug residence)
- gniazdo noun (bird-built structure)
- gniazdo noun (place for depositing eggs)
- kryjówka noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
Portuguese
4 entries- covil noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
- esconderijo noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
- ninho noun (bird-built structure)
- ninho noun (place for depositing eggs)
Pykobjê
1 entries- jaahi noun (bird-built structure)
Quechua
2 entries- thapa noun (bird-built structure)
- thapa noun (place for depositing eggs)
Rarotongan
1 entries- koʻanga noun (place for depositing eggs)
Rohingya
1 entries- bahá noun (bird-built structure)
Romagnol
1 entries- nid noun (bird-built structure)
Romanian
3 entries- cuib noun (bird-built structure)
- cuib noun (place for depositing eggs)
- cuibar noun (place for depositing eggs)
Romansch
2 entries- gnieu noun (bird-built structure)
- igniv noun (bird-built structure)
Russian
4 entries- верте́п noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
- гнездо́ noun (bird-built structure)
- гнездо́ noun (place for depositing eggs)
- гнездо́ noun (snug residence)
Samoan
1 entries- ōfaga noun (bird-built structure)
Sanskrit
1 entries- स्वसर noun (bird-built structure)
Sardinian
2 entries- nidu noun (bird-built structure)
- niu noun (bird-built structure)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- nead noun (bird-built structure)
- nead noun (place for depositing eggs)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gnezdo noun (bird-built structure)
- gnijezdo noun (bird-built structure)
- гнездо noun (bird-built structure)
- гнијездо noun (bird-built structure)
Shan
1 entries- ႁင်း noun (bird-built structure)
Sicilian
1 entries- nidu noun (bird-built structure)
Silesian
1 entries- gniŏzdo noun (bird-built structure)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කදලුව noun (bird-built structure)
Slovak
1 entries- hniezdo noun (bird-built structure)
Slovene
1 entries- gnezdo noun (bird-built structure)
Slovincian
1 entries- gnjozdô noun (bird-built structure)
Southern Altai
1 entries- уйа noun (bird-built structure)
Spanish
4 entries- nidal noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
- nido noun (bird-built structure)
- nido noun (place for depositing eggs)
- nido noun (snug residence)
Sundanese
1 entries- sayang noun (bird-built structure)
Swahili
1 entries- kiota noun (bird-built structure)
Swedish
4 entries- bo noun (bird-built structure)
- bo noun (place for depositing eggs)
- näste noun (place for depositing eggs)
- näste noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
Tabasaran
1 entries- мукь noun (bird-built structure)
Tagalog
2 entries- limliman noun (bird-built structure)
- mamugad verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Tahitian
1 entries- ofaaraa noun (bird-built structure)
Tai Dam
1 entries- ꪭꪰꪉ noun (bird-built structure)
Tai Nüa
1 entries- ᥞᥒᥰ noun (bird-built structure)
Tajik
2 entries- лона noun (bird-built structure)
- ошёна noun (bird-built structure)
Tamil
1 entries- கூடு noun (bird-built structure)
Tatar
1 entries- оя noun (bird-built structure)
Tausug
1 entries- pugad noun (bird-built structure)
Tedim Chin
1 entries- bu noun (bird-built structure)
Telugu
1 entries- గూడు noun (bird-built structure)
Thai
4 entries- ซ่อง noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
- รัง noun (bird-built structure)
- รัง noun (place for depositing eggs)
- รัง noun (hideout — see also hideout, cave)
Tibetan
2 entries- བྱ་ཚང noun (bird-built structure)
- ཚང noun (place for depositing eggs)
Tocharian B
1 entries- lesto noun (bird-built structure)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- haus bilong pisin noun (bird-built structure)
Turkish
2 entries- yuva noun (bird-built structure)
- yuvalamak verb (to build or settle into a nest)
Turkmen
1 entries- höwürtge noun (bird-built structure)
Ukrainian
2 entries- гніздо́ noun (bird-built structure)
- селитися verb (to settle into a home)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- hnězdo noun (bird-built structure)
Urdu
3 entries- آشِیانَہ noun (bird-built structure)
- گھون٘سْلا noun (bird-built structure)
- گھون٘سْلَہ noun (bird-built structure)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئۇۋا noun (bird-built structure)
Uzbek
2 entries- in noun (bird-built structure)
- uya noun (bird-built structure)
Venetan
3 entries- nit noun (bird-built structure)
- njaro noun (bird-built structure)
- nìo noun (bird-built structure)
Veps
1 entries- peza noun (bird-built structure)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tổ noun (bird-built structure)
- ổ noun (bird-built structure)
Vilamovian
1 entries- naost noun (bird-built structure)
Volapük
4 entries- bödanäst noun (bird-built structure)
- bödanästil noun (bird-built structure)
- näst noun (bird-built structure)
- näst noun (place for depositing eggs)
Votic
1 entries- pesä noun (bird-built structure)
Võro
1 entries- pesä noun (bird-built structure)
Warlpiri
1 entries- mina noun (bird-built structure)
Welsh
2 entries- nyth noun (bird-built structure)
- nythod noun (bird-built structure)
Western Apache
1 entries- itʼoh noun (bird-built structure)
Western Mari
1 entries- пӹжӓш noun (bird-built structure)
White Hmong
1 entries- zes noun (bird-built structure)
Yiddish
1 entries- נעסט noun (bird-built structure)
Yámana
1 entries- kuš noun (bird-built structure)
Zhuang
1 entries- rongz noun (bird-built structure)
Zou
2 entries- bi noun (bird-built structure)
- bu noun (bird-built structure)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Put it back in the nest.
Source: tatoeba (41794)
The bird is in its nest.
Source: tatoeba (45011)
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
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