Den vs. Nest — What's the Difference?

The shelter or retreat of a wild animal; a lair.

A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold eggs, offspring, and, oftentimes, the animal itself. Although nests are most closely associated with birds, members of all classes of vertebrates and some invertebrates construct nests.

A cave or hollow used as a refuge or hiding place.

A structure or shelter made or used by a bird to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledged.

A hidden or squalid dwelling place

A structure or shelter in which other animals, such as reptiles, fish, or insects, deposit their eggs or tend their young.

A secluded room for study or relaxation.

A structure or complex built by ants, termites, or other social animals to house a colony.

A unit of about eight to ten Cub Scouts.

A number of insects, birds, or other animals occupying a nest

To inhabit or hide in a den.

A place affording snug refuge or lodging; a home.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.

A place or environment that fosters rapid growth or development, especially of something undesirable; a hotbed

A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.

Those who occupy or frequent such a place or environment.

A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.

A set of objects of graduated size that can be stacked together, each fitting within the one immediately larger

Syn of fort

A cluster of similar things.

A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.

A group of weapons in a prepared position

A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.

To build or occupy a nest.

Abbreviation of denier(a unit of weight)

To create and settle into a warm and secure refuge.

(reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.

To hunt for birds' nests, especially in order to collect the eggs.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

To fit one inside another.

A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.

To place in or as if in a nest.

Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.

To put snugly together or inside one another

A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.

A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

To live in, or as in, a den.

A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

The habitation of wild animals

A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.

A hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws

A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

A unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts

A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

A room that is comfortable and secluded

A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.

(cards) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.

(military) A fortified position for a weapon.

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

(geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.

To build or settle into a nest.

(intransitive) To settle into a home.

(intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

(transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.

(transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

(intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

The place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.

A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.

An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

To build and occupy a nest.

To put into a nest; to form a nest for.

A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

A kind of gun emplacement;

A cosy or secluded retreat

A gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality;

Furniture pieces made to fit close together

Inhabit a nest, usually after building;

Fit together or fit inside;

Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position;

Gather nests