Usually means: Structure for animals to inhabit.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. nest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nest, nest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nest: Vocabulary.com
  6. N'est, Nest, n'est, nest, nest: Wordnik
  7. nest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. NEST, nest: Wiktionary
  9. nest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. NEST: Dictionary.com
  13. nest (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. NEST (software), NEST, Nest (The Outer Limits), Nest (album), Nest (band), Nest (disambiguation), Nest (magazine), Nest (protein structural motif), Nest, The Nest (TV series), The Nest (UK TV series), The Nest (album), The Nest (aviary), The Nest (football ground), The Nest (novel), The Nest (upcoming film), The Nest, The nest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nest: Rhymezone
  19. Nest (nt), nest, nest (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Nest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. nest: Free Dictionary
  23. nest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Nest, nest: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. nest: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. nest: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. nest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. nest: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. NEST: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. nest: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nest: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Nest: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nest, nest: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. N.E.S.T, nest, the nest: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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