warren

See also: Warren

English

Etymology

From Middle English warenne, from Anglo-Norman and warenne (compare Old French guarenne, garenne (“game-park”), probably ultimately from *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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒɹən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔɹən/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹən

Noun

warren (plural warrens)

1. The system of burrows where rabbits live.
2. An enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits.
3. (figuratively) A mazelike place of dark alleys etc in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
   • 2019 October 23, Paul Stephen delivers a progress report on London Underground's transformative Bank Station capacity upgrade, Rail, page 68:

     With demand having increased by almost 40% in the past ten years, overcrowding now threatens to reach occasionally dangerous levels on platforms and in the warren of narrow subterranean passageways between them and the surface.

4. A heart-shaped hoe.

Derived terms

• warrener

Translations

the system of burrows where rabbits live

• Finnish: koloverkosto
• French: garenne (fr)
• Irish: coinicéar m
• Portuguese: covil (pt) m, madrigueira (pt) f
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• Romanian: vizuină (ro) f
• Russian: уча́сток, где во́дятся кро́лики m (učástok, gde vódjatsja króliki) (no exact term exists)
• Spanish: madriguera (es) f
• Welsh: cwningar m

an enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits.

• Russian: кро́личий садо́к m (króličij sadók)
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labyrinthine place

• Finnish: sokkelo (fi)
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• Russian: «мураве́йник» (ru) m («muravéjnik»)

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: zečarnik
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Anagrams

• Warner, warner

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑrən

Noun

warren

1. (deprecated template usage) Plural form of war

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Middle English

Verb

warren

1. Alternative form of werren