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warren¹
- /ˈwɒɹən/ UK
- /ˈwɔɹən/ US
Rhymes with -ɒɹən
Where it comes from
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”).
noun warrens
- A system of burrows in which rabbits or other animals live. The largest warren in group 9 had 10 entrances in use and 11 not in use.
- A structure where rabbits are kept as pets or for food, etc; the rabbits living in such a structure.
- A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded. We piled into Manchester's car, leaving mine at the gallery, and crossed town, striking off the main road and into a warren of dirt roads and adobe.
- The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes. A forest is a certen territorie of wooddy grounds and fruitfull pasrues, priviledged for wild beast and foules of forest, chase, and warren to rest and abide in, in the safe protection of the king for his princely delight and pleasure, which territorie of ground, so priviledged, is meered and bounde
- A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits. Free warren is a franchise , erected for the preservation or custody ( which the word signifies ) of beasts and fowls of warren; which , being feræ naturæ , every one had a natural right to kill as he could : but upon the introduction of the forest laws, at the period of the Norman conquest, these a
- 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. Free-warren confers the property in wild animals, and that property may be claimed (a) in the land of another, to the exclusion of the owner of the soil; for in ancient times persons summoned to parliament often obtaine from the Crown grants of warren in their demesne lands, comprising such parts of
Warren²
- /ˈwɒɹən/
- /ˈwɔɹən/ US
Rhymes with -ɒɹən, -ɔɹən
Where it comes from
From the Anglo-Norman surname (de) Warenne, a reference to a place called Varenne, a hamlet near Arques-la-Bataille, along the river Varenne in Normandy, from Medieval Latin Warinna, a hydronym of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from *var-, *ver- (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the Latin river Avara. Phonetic Germanic influence is shown by the [v] > [w].
proper noun Warrens
- A surname from Old French. U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to send a letter to President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier
- A male given name from the Germanic languages. Meanwhile, in 1730, the son, the younger Penyston Hastings, had married Hester Warren, daughter of the proprietor of Stubhill, a small estate near Twining, Gloucestershire. She died in the house at Churchill after having given birth to her second child who, in memory of her, was named Warren.
- A town in New South Wales.
- A local government area in central-northern New South Wales which includes the town; in full, Warren Shire.
- A geographic region in southern Western Australia.
- A community in the Rural Municipality of Woodlands, Manitoba; named for railroad executive A. E. Warren.
- A community in Markstay-Warren municipality, Sudbury District, Ontario.
- A community in the city of Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona.
- A city, the county seat of Bradley County, Arkansas.
- A former settlement near Fellows, Kern County, California.
- A former settlement near Mojave, Kern County, California.
- A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut; named for Joseph Warren.
- An unincorporated community in Idaho County, Idaho.
- A village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois; named for Warren Burnett, the first white child born in the area.
- A town in Salamonie Township, Huntington County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Knox County, Kentucky.
- A town in Knox County, Maine; named for Joseph Warren.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Worcester County, Massachusetts; named for Joseph Warren.
- A city in Macomb County, Michigan; named for War of 1812 veteran Rev. Abel Warren.
- A city, the county seat of Marshall County, Minnesota; named for railroad executive Charles Howard Warren.
- An unincorporated community in Marion County, Missouri; named for its township, itself for Joseph Warren.
- An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana.
- A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire; named for Peter Warren.
- A township in Somerset County, New Jersey.
- A town and hamlet therein, in Herkimer County, New York; named for Joseph Warren.
- A city, the county seat of Trumbull County, Ohio; named for surveyor Moses Warren.
- A census-designated place in Columbia County, Oregon; named for the town in Massachusetts.
- A city, the county seat of Warren County, Pennsylvania; named for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren.
- A town in Bristol County, Rhode Island; named for British naval officer Peter Warren.
- A former settlement in Texas, and the former county seat of Fannin County.
- A census-designated place in Tyler County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Weber County, Utah; named for Utah politician and Mormon leader Lewis Warren Shurtliff.
- A town in Washington County, Vermont; named for Joseph Warren.
- An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
- A town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Warren Township.
- A neighbourhood of Gawsworth, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8870).
- A hamlet in Bere Regis parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY8591).
- A small settlement near Chapeltown, Ecclesfield parish, City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3597).
- A hamlet in Stackpole and Castlemartin community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SR9397).
proper noun The Warren
- * see: The Warren.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rabbit warren, lair, worn, rutherford, youngstown, scherer, otero, den, form, maze, burrow, sett, hive, rookery, anthill, rabbitry
Translations
Every language
noun the system of burrows where rabbits live
| Español | madriguera |
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| Português | toca, covil, madrigueira |
| Français | garenne |
| Deutsch | Kaninchenbau, Kaninchenloch |
| Italiano | garenna |
| Română | vizuină |
| Русский | уча́сток, где во́дятся кро́лики učástok, gde vódjatsja króliki |
noun labyrinthine place
| Русский | «мураве́йник» |
|---|
noun a place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits
| Русский | кро́личий садо́к króličij sadók |
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