Nest Place Leave Female Noun Bre Sparrows Building

• sparrows building a nest of twigs and dry grass
• a wasps’ nest
• a nest of mice
• a nest of thieves

nest

1. a hollow place or structure that a bird makes or chooses for laying its eggs in and sheltering its young
• sparrows building a nest of twigs and dry grass
2. a place where insects or other small creatures live and produce their young
• a wasps’ nest
• a nest of mice
3. a secret place which is full of bad people and their activities
• a nest of thieves
4. the home, thought of as the safe place where parents bring up their children
• see also empty nest
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/the-empty-nest
• to leave the nest (= leave your parents’ home)
5. a group or set of similar things that are made to fit inside each other
• a nest of tables
6. to make yourself richer, especially by spending money on yourself that should be spent on something else
• See related entries: Selfish
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/selfish/nest_2
7. to become able to fly and leave its nest
8. to leave home and live somewhere else
9. a difficult situation in which a lot of people get very angry
• His letter to the papers stirred up a real hornets' nest.
10. a discovery that seems interesting but is found to have no value
• See related entries: Farm animals
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/farm_animals/nest_3
11. a very complicated situation
• See related entries: Farm animals
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/farm_animals/nest_3
• This area of the law is a veritable mare’s nest.

Extra Examples

• A rat took the egg while the mother was away from the nest.
• Her children have flown the nest.
• The female spends all her time on the nest.
• The litters of several different females often occupy the same nest.
• The male and female take turns to sit on the nest.
• The male uses song to attract a female to his nest site.
• The snake will attack if disturbed inside its nest.
• You should avoid disturbing the nest until after the eggs are hatched.

Word Origin

• Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Latin nidus, from the Indo-European bases of nether (meaning ‘down’) and sit.