den

• n. 泥棒の巣窟、個室；巣穴、隠れ家；小部屋
• vi. 洞窟に隠れる；狭くて汚い部屋に住む。
• vt......を巣穴に追い込む
• n.(伝)人名；(日)传(名)；(露)ジャイン；(普)ダーン

PIE*danの低地から。語源的にはDaneと同じ。

den

den: [OE] Related forms such as German tenne ‘threshing floor’ and possibly Greek thenar ‘palm of the hand’ suggest that the underlying meaning of den may be ‘flat area’. Old English denn denoted ‘wild animal’s lair’, perhaps with reference to animals’ flattening an area of vegetation to form a sleeping place. Dean [OE], a word for ‘valley’ now surviving only in placenames, comes from the same source.

den (n.)

Old English denn "wild animal's lair," from Proto-Germanic *danjan (cognates: Middle Low German denne "lowland, wooded vale, den," Old English denu "valley," Old Frisian dene "down," Old High German tenni, German tenne "threshing floor," from PIE *dan- "low ground"). Sense of "small room" is 1771, originally colloquial.

1. The government is cynically running down Swe- den 's welfare system.

スウェーデン政府は利己的に自国の福祉を削減している。

2.A disco isn 't exactly a den of iniquity.

ディスコは汚れを隠す場所ではありません。

3.There is a big fox den on the back hill.

裏山には大きなキツネの巣がある。

4.He finds himself in a den of ruffians.

彼は自分がごろつきの巣の中にいることを発見した。

5.The tiger retireed to its den .

そのトラは巣に戻った。