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Warren

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Noun

1. robert penn warren, warren

United States writer and poet (1905-1989)

2. earl warren, warren

United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)

3. rabbit warren, warren

a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits

4. rabbit warren, warren

an overcrowded residential area

5. warren

a colony of rabbits

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Warren

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noun
1. 
a series of interconnected underground tunnels in which rabbits live
2. 
a colony of rabbits
3. 
an overcrowded area or dwelling
4. 
a. mainly British
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)
b. English legal history
a franchise permitting one to keep animals, birds, or fish in this way
noun
a city in the US, in SE Michigan, northeast of Detroit. Pop: 136 016 (2003 est)
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
2. 
(John) Robin. born 1937, Australian pathologist who, with Barry Marshall, demonstrated that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, for which they won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2005)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Warren

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noun
a masculine name
1. 
Earl1891-1974; U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. (1953-69)
2. 
Robert Penn1905-89; U.S. writer & poet: 1st poet laureate of the U.S. (1986-87)
1. 
city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 138,000
2. 
city in NE Ohio: pop. 47,000
noun
1.  Obsolete, British
a piece of land enclosed for the breeding of game
2. 
a space or limited area in which rabbits breed or are numerous
3. 
any building or group of buildings crowded like a rabbit warren

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Warren

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American writer and critic primarily known for his poetry. His works include the novel All the King's Men (1946) and many poetry collections, such as Promises (1957). He served as the first official American poet laureate (1986-1987).
American physician and patriot who instructed Paul Revere and William Dawes to make their ride to Lexington (1775) and was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
American jurist who served as the chief justice of the US Supreme Court (1953-1969).
A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit.
n.
1.
a. An area where rabbits live in burrows.
b. A colony of rabbits.
2. An enclosure for small game animals.
3.
a. An overcrowded living area.
b. A mazelike place where one may easily become lost: a warren of narrow, dark alleys and side streets.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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