Usually means: Den or hideout for animals.
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  1. lair, lair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. lair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. lair: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lair: Vocabulary.com
  5. L'Air, Lair, l'air, lair, l'Air: Wordnik
  6. lair: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Lair, lair: Wiktionary
  8. lair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lair: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lair, lair: Dictionary.com
  12. lair: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. lair: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lair (Herbert novel), Lair (disambiguation), Lair (novel), Lair (video game), Lair, The Lair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lair: Rhymezone
  18. Lair: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lair: Free Dictionary
  21. lair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Lair, lair: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. lair: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. lair: Merriam-Webster.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lair: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. LAIR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lair, lair, lair: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Lair, lair: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lairing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
noun:  A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
noun:  (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
noun:  (British dialectal) A bed or resting place.
noun:  (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot.
noun:  (seduction community) A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
verb:  (British) To rest; to dwell.
verb:  (British) To lay down.
verb:  (British) To bury.
noun:  (Scotland) A bog; a mire.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland) To mire.
verb:  (intransitive, Scotland) To become mired.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Obsolete form of layer. [A single thickness of some material covering a surface.]

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