What part of speech is lairs?

Lairs can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. lairs is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of lair (infinitive).
  • 2. lairs is a noun, plural of lair.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does lairs mean?

Definitions

Verb

lair - To mire.
lair - To become mired.

Noun

lair - the habitation of wild animals

Examples of lairs

#   Sentence  
1. noun 'What are you doing here, friend?' asked the stranger; 'darkness is falling fast, and soon the wild beasts will come from their lairs to seek for food.'
2. noun A fox smells its own lair first.
3. noun The octopus only exits its lair to look for food or for reproductive purposes.
4. noun The Cyclops lifted his cyclopean body out of his cyclopean bed and set about to the cyclopean task of cleaning up the entirety of his cyclopean lair.
5. noun Wolverines make their lair under torn-out roots, in rock crevices and in other secluded spots.
6. noun Beowulf decided to follow the dragon to its lair.
7. noun "Here Scylla, gaping from her gloomy lair, / the passing vessels on the rocks doth hale."
8. noun Where is the bandits' lair?
9. noun Tom lives in a secret lair underground.
10. noun His world was gloomy; but he did not know that, for he knew no other world. It was dim-lighted; but his eyes had never had to adjust themselves to any other light. His world was very small. Its limits were the walls of the lair; but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.
11. noun A pack of dogs tracked the fox to its lair.
12. noun A fox smells its own lair first.
13. noun The octopus only exits its lair to look for food or for reproductive purposes.
14. noun The Cyclops lifted his cyclopean body out of his cyclopean bed and set about to the cyclopean task of cleaning up the entirety of his cyclopean lair.
15. noun Wolverines make their lair under torn-out roots, in rock crevices and in other secluded spots.
Sentence  
noun
'What are you doing here, friend?' asked the stranger; 'darkness is falling fast, and soon the wild beasts will come from their lairs to seek for food.'
A fox smells its own lair first.
The octopus only exits its lair to look for food or for reproductive purposes.
The Cyclops lifted his cyclopean body out of his cyclopean bed and set about to the cyclopean task of cleaning up the entirety of his cyclopean lair.
Wolverines make their lair under torn-out roots, in rock crevices and in other secluded spots.
Beowulf decided to follow the dragon to its lair.
"Here Scylla, gaping from her gloomy lair, / the passing vessels on the rocks doth hale."
Where is the bandits' lair?
Tom lives in a secret lair underground.
His world was gloomy; but he did not know that, for he knew no other world. It was dim-lighted; but his eyes had never had to adjust themselves to any other light. His world was very small. Its limits were the walls of the lair; but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.
A pack of dogs tracked the fox to its lair.
A fox smells its own lair first.
The octopus only exits its lair to look for food or for reproductive purposes.
The Cyclops lifted his cyclopean body out of his cyclopean bed and set about to the cyclopean task of cleaning up the entirety of his cyclopean lair.
Wolverines make their lair under torn-out roots, in rock crevices and in other secluded spots.

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