warrens
USWAWR-uhnz/ˈwɔɹənz/UKWOR-uhnz/ˈwɒɹənz/
- 1Plural of warren.
Foxes hunt along the edges of the rabbit warrens on the moor at dusk.
Behind the grand facades lie warrens of tiny offices where first-time visitors quickly get lost.
Note
Rabbit burrows give the figurative plural its picture: any maze of cramped rooms and passages, often followed by of, as in warrens of corridors or warrens of back streets. In history the plural also names grounds licensed by law for breeding and hunting rabbits and other small game. Capitalized, the Warrens is a family bearing the surname, which comes from Old French.
warrens is a form of warren
warren, noun: A network of connected burrows in which rabbits live. Full entry
- Forms
- warrenwarrens plural
- Spelling
- warren → warrens: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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