nest

a bed or receptacle prepared by an animal and especially a bird for its eggs and young

The first known use: before the 12th century

Word Structure

Sentence Examples

The bird built a nest out of small twigs.

If you look closely, you can see a nest in that tree.

They lived in a cozy little nest in the suburbs.

Robins nested in the tree.

She studied the nesting habits of the turtle.

The set of four chairs can nest into one stack.

The smaller bowl is designed to nest inside the larger one.

Related Words

Sound the same but are spelled differently.

burrow	den	refuge
aerie	haunt	hideaway

Collocations

The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.

nest	nest box	nest egg
love nest	crow’s nest	empty nest
bird’s nest soup	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	nest eggs

Neighborhood

Rhymes

best	chest	rest
test	west

Onset Friends

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