den

From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-Germanic *danjō (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“flat surface, board, sheet, area, palm of the hand”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).

• IPA^(key): /dɛn/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /dɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Homophone: din (pin-pen merger)

den (plural dens)

1. A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.

   a den of robbers

   Daniel was put into the lions’ den.

2. A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.

   a den of vice

   an opium den; a gambling den

3. A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
4. (Britain, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

• (home of certain animals): lair

  See also: Wiktionary appendix of animal terms, including their homes

den (third-person singular simple present dens, present participle denning, simple past and past participle denned)

1. (reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.

From Old French denier, from Latin denarius.

den

1. Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight)

den (not comparable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of then, representing African American Vernacular English.

• -end, DNE, End, NDE, NED, Ned, end, end-, ned

den

1. child
2. fruit

(Sense 1)

• denkɛ
• denkundi
• denkura
• denmarayɔrɔ
• denmisɛn
• denmuso
• denso

den (intransitive)

1. to bear fruit

From Proto-Brythonic *dün, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰom-yo- (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdẽːn/

den m

1. human being
2. person, man
3. husband

den (Sette Comuni)

1. accusative singular masculine of dèar
2. dative plural of dèar

• “den” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Proto-Brythonic *dün, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰom-yo- (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [dɛːn]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [deːn]

den m (plural tus)

1. man
2. person

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• IPA^(key): /dɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

From Proto-Slavic *dьnь (“day”).

den m inan

1. day (24 hours, usually from midnight to midnight)
2. daytime (time between sunrise and sunset)
3. (astronomy) day (rotational period of a body orbiting a star)

   Den na Merkuru trvá téměř 59 pozemských dní.

   A day on Mercury lasts almost 59 terrestrial days.

• deník m
• denně
• denní
• den sobotní
• každodenní
• dobrý den
• všední

den

1. genitive plural of dno

den

1. genitive plural of dna

• dne

• den in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• den in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Norse þann, the accusative form of sá, from Proto-Germanic *sa (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).

• IPA^(key): /dən/, /dɛn/, [d̥ən], [ˈd̥ɛnˀ]
• Rhymes: -ɛn, -ən

den c (neuter det, plural de)

1. (definite) the (used before an adjective preceding a noun)

   bilen - the car; den røde bil - the red car

• IPA^(key): /dɛn/, [d̥ɛnˀ] or IPA^(key): /dən/, [d̥ən]

den c (neuter det, plural de)

1. (demonstrative) that, the
2. (personal) it

• IPA^(key): /dɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

From Middle Dutch dan, danne, denne (“pine tree”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *danwō-, *danjō- "pine tree". Cognate with German Tanne.

den m (plural dennen, diminutive dennetje n)

1. pine, pine tree

• (pine tree): dennenboom, naaldboom, pijnboom

den (definite)

1. (archaic) Dative singular masculine form of de.

   Nederland in den goeden ouden tijd. — The Netherlands in the days of yore.

   De baron gaf den koetsier een wenk en het rijtuig rolde heen. — The baron gave the coachman a sign and the carriage rode away. (from the story Gaston von Frankrijk by J.J.A. Goeverneur)

2. (archaic) Dative singular neuter form of het.

   In den beginne schiep God den hemel en de aarde — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

3. (archaic) Dative plural form (for all genders) of de and het.
4. (archaic) Accusative singular masculine form of de.
5. (Southern, dialectal) Masculine singular definite article, alternative form of de.

• The use of den was dropped from written Dutch during the spelling reform of 1947; de is now used instead.
• Normally only the nominative is used; other forms are archaic but survive in a number of idiomatic expressions.
• den is still widely used in Brabantian and many other Dutch and Flemish dialects. It is also used in surnames (e.g. Van den Berg).
• The current pronunciation is a spelling pronunciation. Before the word became archaic, it was pronounced with a schwa, /dən/.

• op den duur

• IPA^(key): /deːn/ (stressed)
• IPA^(key): /den/, /dən/ (unstressed)

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• Homophone: dehn
• Rhymes: -eːn

den (definite)

1. the; accusative masculine singular of der
2. the; dative plural for all genders of der

den

1. that; whom; accusative singular of der

• de’n (superseded)

• IPA^(key): /dʲɛnˠ/, /dʲənˠ/
• (Connemara, Aran Islands) IPA^(key): /ɡənˠ/

den

1. Contraction of de an.

   Bhris mé den chrann é. ― I broke it off the tree.

   Fuair sé bás den ocras. ― He died of hunger.

This contraction is obligatory, i.e. *de an never appears uncontracted. It triggers lenition of a following consonant other than d, s, or t.

den

1. Rōmaji transcription of でん

• IPA^(key): /den/, [dən]

den m

1. unstressed form of deen

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /den/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /dɪn/
• Rhymes: -den, -en

den

1. I, me, my

• aku
• saya

den

1. Nonstandard spelling of dèn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

den

1. inflection of die:
   1. masculine accusative and dative singular
   2. neuter dative singular
   3. dative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn/ - (stressed)
• IPA^(key): /dən/ - (unstressed)

den (genitive dens)

1. it; third person singular, masculine/feminine gender. Nominative, accusative or dative.

den m or f

1. (demonstrative pronoun) that

den m or f

1. The; only used if there is an adjective in front of the noun.

   bilen: the car → den røde bilen: the red car

• det
• de
• dem

• IPA^(key): /dɛnː/

den m or f (neuter det, plural dei)

1. (demonstrative pronoun) that

   Eg vil ha den bilen.

   I want that car.

den

1. the; only used if there is an adjective in front of the noun.

   Han køyrde den raude bilen.

   He drove the red car.

• “den” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

den

1. for (indicating the reason justifying a given deduction)

From Portuguese dentro and Spanish dentro and Kabuverdianu dentu.

den

1. in
2. inside
3. below

• IPA^(key): /dɛn/

den

1. genitive plural of dno

• IPA^(key): /den/, [d̪ẽn]
• Rhymes: -en

den

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of dar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of dar.
3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of dar.

• dem (archaic)

From English them.

• IPA^(key): /den/

den

1. they
2. them

den

1. their (possessive pronoun)

den

1. the (plural definite article)

From Old Swedish þæn, accusative of sā(r), from Old Norse sá, from Proto-Germanic *sa, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

• IPA^(key): /dɛnː/

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den c

1. it
2. that

den c (definite)

1. (before an adjective preceding a noun) the

   den röda bilen - “the red car”

• det
• det här
• det där
• den här
• den där
• dessa
• de
• dem