Usually means: Structures built for animal habitation.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. nests: Merriam-Webster
  2. nests: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nests: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nest's, Nests, nests: Wordnik
  5. nests: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. NESTs, nests: Wiktionary
  7. nests: Dictionary.com
  8. nests: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. nests: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nests: Glossary of research economics
  2. nests: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nests: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nests: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. nests: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NESTS: Acronym Finder
  2. nests: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (NEST)

noun:  A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
noun:  A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
noun:  A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
noun:  A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
noun:  A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
noun:  A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
noun:  (card games) 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.
noun:  (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
noun:  (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
noun:  A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
noun:  (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
noun:  A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
noun:  A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
verb:  (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
verb:  (intransitive) To settle into a home.
verb:  (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
verb:  (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
verb:  (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
verb:  (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
noun:  A surname from German or Welsh.
noun:  (education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.
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