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warren

noun
/ˈwɒɹən/UK/ˈwɔɹən/US

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *warrā✻
  2. derived from *warrennā✻
  3. derived from *warjaną✻
  4. derived from *warjan✻
  5. derived from warenne

Definitions

  1. A system of burrows in which rabbits live.

    • The largest warren in group 9 had 10 entrances in use and 11 not in use.

  2. A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself

    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.
    • 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.

  3. The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of…

    The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.

    • Grouse are not birds of warren ( 2 ); and trespass on a free warren will not lie for shooting them .
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren,…

      A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.

    2. The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but…

      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.

      • The defendant has pleaded a warren in gross: he does not make it appendant or appurtenant. He shews merely that Charles I. granted a free warren, as he might do.
      • Henry de Greye claims to have many franchises in Toveton by Charter of King Henry, that is to say a warren.

    3. A surname from Old French.

    4. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

      • "I tell her she should name him Warren after the President,"Andrew was saying. "Never," said his wife. "Maybe I'll call him - " she looked around frantically - "Edward or Eric."

    5. A placename

      A placename:

    6. * see

      * see: The Warren.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA