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  warren

  noun

  a place where rabbits breed or abound.
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  Warren

  noun

  Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.

warren

¹ American  

[wawr-uhn, wor-] / ˈwɔr ən, ˈwɒr- /

noun

• warrens
  plural

1. 

   a place where rabbits breed or abound.

2. a building or area containing many tenants in limited or crowded quarters.

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Warren ² American  

[wawr-uhn, wor-] / ˈwɔr ən, ˈwɒr- /

noun

1. Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.

2. Joseph, 1741–75, American physician, statesman, and patriot.

3. Mercy Otis, 1728–1814, U.S. historian and poet (sister of James Otis).

4. Robert Penn, 1905–89, U.S. novelist and poet: named the first U.S. poet laureate (1986–87).

5. a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.

6. a city in NE Ohio, NW of Youngstown.

7. a city in NW Pennsylvania.

8. a town in E Rhode Island.

9. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “protection.”

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warren ¹ British  

/ ˈwɒrən /

noun

1. a series of interconnected underground tunnels in which rabbits live

2. a colony of rabbits

3. an overcrowded area or dwelling

4. 1. an enclosed place where small game animals or birds are kept, esp for breeding, or a part of a river or lake enclosed by nets in which fish are kept (esp in the phrase beasts or fowls of warren )

   2. English legal history a franchise permitting one to keep animals, birds, or fish in this way

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Warren ² British  

/ ˈwɒrən /

noun

1. a city in the US, in SE Michigan, northeast of Detroit. Pop: 136 016 (2003 est)

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Warren ³ British  

/ ˈwɒrən /

noun

1. Earl. 1891–1974, US lawyer; chief justice of the US (1953–69). He chaired the commission that investigated the murder of President Kennedy

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• warrens
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of warren

1350–1400; Middle English warenne < Anglo-French; Old French g ( u ) arenne < Germanic *warinne game park, equivalent to *war- (base of *warjan to defend) + *-inne feminine noun suffix

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Explanation

When Bugs Bunny outruns Elmer Fudd and vanishes down his rabbit hole, he's escaping into a warren — a network of underground tunnels where rabbits live. A warren isn't just the maze-like tunnels where rabbits live. You may encounter a warren of subway tunnels or a warren of interconnected bomb shelters. Bring those narrow paths above ground and cluster them with homes and you have another kind of warren, or a maze-like residential area.

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The agency offices sit in a dense warren of buildings above a shopping precinct, where vendors sell local fruit and workers queue for takeaway sour soup rice noodles.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

The work depicts a group of characters who find themselves trapped in a warren of bizarrely laid-out rooms resembling empty offices, illuminated by a pallid yellow light.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

When one, an unsettling nine-minute experiment about a warren of dingy carpets, taffy-yellow walls and gridded drop ceilings clicked with 78 million viewers, he made sequels.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

As Eilonwy had said, the passageway was more comfortable, for they could walk side by side without crouching and scuttling like rabbits in a warren.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Or coach Sean McVay could move right tackle Warren McClendon Jr. to the left side and play Quessenberry on the right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

El-Sayed was backed by progressive leaders including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren, as well as the United Auto Workers union.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

A viewer’s guide to Warren Buffett’s nightly trips down the YouTube rabbit hole.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

John Nichols, a former accountant, and his son Larry, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, founded Devon in 1971.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“My baby,” Mia would say to anyone who would listen, tapping her mother’s belly with a finger, and infallibly Warren would kick in reply.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

In West Dorset, the more rugged part of Dorset county, this is when the holloways, or sunken lanes, are transformed into warrens of glossy ferns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

The only other mammal thought to maintain stable, mixed-sex, multi-adult groups with several exclusive pair bonds is the Patagonian mara, a large rabbit-like rodent that lives in communal warrens made up of long-term couples.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026

Not far from the Canton Fair, there are warrens of workshops in Guangdong making clothes, shoes and bags.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025

The film’s success is thanks in part to audiences that have returned over and over to get lost in the rocky warrens and spiritual reckonings of the planet Arrakis.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

Rabbit warrens, woodpeckers are nice, but without a trail would I be able to find my way back?

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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