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lair
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /l??/
- (US) IPA(key): /l???/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: layer (one pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English le?er (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legr?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-.
Noun
lair (plural lairs)
- A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
- (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- ...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- (Britain dialectal) A bed or resting place.
- (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot. [from c. 1420]
Synonyms
- (of an animal): burrow (of some smaller mammals), den (of a lion or tiger), holt (of an otter)
- (of a criminal): den, hide-out
Derived terms
- (grave): lair-stone (“tombstone”)
Translations
Verb
lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)
- (Britain) To rest; to dwell.
- (Britain) To lay down.
- (Britain) To bury.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”).
Noun
lair (plural lairs)
- (Scotland) A bog; a mire.
Verb
lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)
- (transitive, Scotland) To mire.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To become mired.
Etymology 3
Backformation from lairy.
Noun
lair (plural lairs)
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
References
- Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary?[3], volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 505–506
- “lair” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Anagrams
- aril, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial
Manx
Noun
lair f
- Alternative form of laair
Scots
Etymology
From Old English l?r (“instruction”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lair/
- Rhymes: -er
Noun
lair (plural lairs)
- lore
- "Ower mony a fair-farrant an rare beuk o precious lair" (second line of "The Raven" translated into Scots).
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habitat
English
Etymology
From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habit? (“I live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit and ignoramus from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?hæb?tæt/, [?hæb?tæ?]
Noun
habitat (countable and uncountable, plural habitats)
- (uncountable, biology) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
- (countable, biology) A place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.
- (countable, biology) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
- A place in which a person lives.
Related terms
- habitable
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “habitat”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Tabitha
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?.bi?tat/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.bi?tat/
- Rhymes: -at
Verb
habitat m (feminine habitada, masculine plural habitats, feminine plural habitades)
- past participle of habitar
French
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /a.bi.ta/
- Rhymes: -a
- Homophone: habitats
Noun
habitat m (plural habitats)
- habitat
Further reading
- “habitat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
habitat
- third-person singular present active indicative of habit?
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin habitatus, from habitare
Noun
habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat or habitater, definite plural habitata or habitatene)
- a habitat
References
- “habitat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin habitatus, from habitare
Noun
habitat n (definite singular habitatet, indefinite plural habitat, definite plural habitata)
- a habitat
References
- “habitat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
habitat m (plural habitats)
- (biology) habitat (natural conditions in which a plant or animal lives)
Romanian
Etymology
From French habitat.
Noun
habitat n (plural habitate)
- habitat
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xab?ta?t/
- Hyphenation: ha?bi?tat
Noun
habìt?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- habitat
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