Noun
tracking the bear back to its lair
She runs the project from her private lair in the suburbs.
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Photo: Columbia County & Northern Dutchess MLS The perfect house for a villain looking for a new lair and is both concerned enough about the environment to want to go electric but not concerned enough to scale down.—Clio Chang, Curbed, 20 Feb. 2025 According to the authors, the spiders appeared to have left their webs or lairs and migrated to die when exposed to the fungus.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025 Today, the cave is a hot dining destination with patrons reserving tables months in advance to have a meal in the limestone lair.—Caitlin Palumbo, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 The story is rife with twists and turns and Austin Powers–like villains, including an eyepatch-wearing former Nazi who lives in a lair at the top of a mountain.—Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lair
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English leger; akin to Old High German legar bed, Old English licgan to lie — more at lie
Verb
Scots lair mire
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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