Nest

Noun

 * 1) A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
 * 2) A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
 * 3) A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or job situation.
 * 4) A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
 * 5) A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt.
 * 6) A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent, guardian, or a person acting in the capacity of a parent or guardian. A parental home.
 * 7)  A fixed amount of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
 * 8)  A fortified position for a weapon, e.g. a machine gun nest.
 * 9)  A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

Verb

 * 1)  To build or settle into a nest.
 * 2)  To settle into a home.
 * 3)  To successively neatly fit inside another.
 * 4)  To place in, or as if in, a nest.
 * 5)  To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

Thesaurus
a mass of, a world of, abide, abiding place, abode, address, aerie, anchor, apiary, army, bee tree, beehive, berth, bevy, billet at, birthplace, bivouac, breeding place, brood, brooder, bunch, bunk, burrow, camp, cantonment, cloud, clutch, clutter, cohabit, colonize, come to anchor, covey, cradle, crash pad, crib, den, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, domus, doss down, drop anchor, dwell, dwelling, dwelling place, ensconce, establish residence, eyrie, farrow, flight, flock, flocks, forcing bed, fry, get, habitation, hail, hang out, hatch, hatchery, haunt, hideaway, hive, host, hotbed, incubator, inhabit, jam, keep house, lair, large amount, legion, litter, live, live at, locate, lodge, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, lots, many, masses of, mob, moor, move, muchness, multitude, nidus, numbers, nursery, occupy, pack, pad, park, people, perch, place, place to live, plurality, populate, quantities, quite a few, refuge, relocate, remain, reside, residence, resort, retreat, roof, rookery, room, roost, rout, ruck, scores, seat, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shoal, sit down, snuggery, spat, spawn, squat, stand, stay, stay at, strike root, swarm, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenant, throng, tidy sum, vespiary, worlds of, young

Etymology
From nest:, from, from , a compound of  and the zero-grade of the root  (whence also English sit:).

Derived terms

 * feather one's nest/feather one's own nest
 * nest egg

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عش ( أعشاش)
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: гняздо
 * Bulgarian: гнездо
 * Campidanese Sardinian: niu
 * Catalan: niu
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鳥巢, 鸟巢, 巢
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пизэ (pize)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: घोंसला
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:, nead
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 巣, ネスト
 * Khmer: ធ្វើសំបុក
 * Khmer: ធ្វើសំបុក


 * Korean: 둥지, 새집
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: lizda, ligzda, lizda
 * Lithuanian: lizdas
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: കൂട് (kootu)
 * Persian: لانه
 * Pitjantjatjara: mina
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гнијездо,  гнездо
 * Roman: gnijezdo,  gnezdo
 * Slovak: hniezdo
 * Slovene: gnezdo
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: (gooDu)
 * Thai: รัง, รังนก
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: гніздо
 * Vietnamese: làm tổ
 * Warlpiri: mina
 * Welsh:
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic: عش
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: niu,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пизэ (pize)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: nead


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 巣
 * Korean: 둥지
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пизэ (pize)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, chez-soi/chez-moi
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 巣
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: гнёздышко
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: pesä


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: скривалиште


 * Arabic:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: pesäpaikka, pesä
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מחבוא


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 巣 (su), 巣窟 (sōkutsu)
 * Macedonian: скривалиште
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: näste; tillhåll


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: pesä


 * Finnish: pesäke

Verb

 * Arabic: عشش
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: nesti (build), nestiĝi (settle)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: fészket rak


 * Japanese: 巣籠る
 * Macedonian: се гнезди
 * Polish: gnieździć
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: гнездоваться (gnezdovát’sja)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: bygga bo


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kotiutua, asettua taloksi
 * French:


 * Hungarian: fészkel
 * Japanese: 籠る (komoru)
 * Polish: znaleźć schronienie
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sopia sisäkkäin


 * French: s'emboîter
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: innesten
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: laittaa pesään


 * Macedonian: вгнездува
 * Polish: zagnieździć
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: laittaa sisäkkäin
 * French:


 * Polish: zagnieździć
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * ents
 * nets
 * sent, sent.
 * Sten
 * tens, TENS

Noun

 * 1) A nest
 * 2)  One's bed
 * ''Kom uit je nest, ’t is hoogste tijd!
 * ''Get out of bed, it’s late!
 * 1) A nasty, ill-behaving or pretentious girl.
 * Wat een verwend nest!
 * ''What a spoiled, pretentious girl!
 * ''De prinses was een verwend nest, tot Zijne Majesteit haar naar een buitenlandse kostschool stuurde waar vervelende nesten van de stok krijgen
 * ''The princess was a spoiled brat, till His Majesty sent her to a foreign boarding school where bitching girls get the cane

Derived terms

 * nestblijver
 * nestei
 * nestelen, nesten (verbs)
 * nesteling
 * nesterig
 * nesterij
 * nesthaar
 * nesthokker
 * nestig, nestigheid


 * nestkastje
 * nestkeus, nestkeuze
 * nestkuiken
 * nestveren
 * nestzitter
 * roversnest
 * smokkelnest
 * vogelnest

Verb

 * 1) Imperative and singular present imperfect forms of nesten

Etymology
From nest:, from  nest:, from. Cognate with English, German Nest etc.

Noun

 * 1) A nest

Descendants

 * English: nest