SpellRight › Spelling
Uncommonnests
The correct spelling is nests.
How to pronounce nests
noun
Say it like: Nes-ts
The correct spelling is nests. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. For example: "That nightclub is a nest of strange people!"
Usage Examples
“That nightclub is a nest of strange people!”
“I am aspiring to leave the nest.”
“I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- 2.A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- 3.A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- 4.A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- 5.A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
verb
- 1.(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- 2.To settle into a home.
- 3.To successively neatly fit inside another.
- 4.To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- 5.To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
Similar words
Words related in meaning — check their spelling too.