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nest

/nɛst/

noun1 of 2

the home of a bird or spider

  • “It was once a great mystery where this bird nested.”Tatoeba
  • “I will put the egg back in the nest again.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

verb2 of 2

To settle into a home.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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