Definition of warren Warren

/wɔˈɹʌn/ - [worun] - War•ren

We found 14 definitions of warren from 6 different sources.

What does warren mean?

Noun Plural: warrens
warren - a colony of rabbits
		animal group a group of animals
warren - United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
		Robert Penn Warren
warren - an overcrowded residential area
		rabbit warren
warren - a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
		rabbit warren
warren - United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
		Earl Warren

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warren (Noun)
The system of burrows where rabbits live.
warren (Noun)
A mazelike place of dark alleys etc in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.

warren (n.)
A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren.
warren (n.)
A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission.
warren (n.)
A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
warren (n.)
A place for keeping flash, in a river.

warren
One that is security for goods taken up on credit by extravagant young gentlemen. Cunny warren; a girl's boarding-school, also a bawdy-house.

domestic
A domestic warren is a fake, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry that is used for the raising of domestic rabbits for meat and fur.

There was a clear distinction between free warren and domestic warren. But today that is nearly gone. One even speaks of a "prairie dog warren".

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warren in sign language