Burrow vs Den - What's the difference?
burrow | den |
A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
A mound.
An incorporated town.
(Webster 1913)
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
(UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
(reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
(a unit of weight)
As nouns the difference between burrow and den
is that burrow is a tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature while den is a small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.As verbs the difference between burrow and den
is that burrow is to dig a tunnel or hole while den is to ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.As an abbreviation den is
abbreviation of lang=en (a unit of weight.As a proper noun Den is
a diminutive of the male given name Dennis.burrow
English
Noun
(en noun)- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels' for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the ' burrows the real rabbits lived in.
den
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) den, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a den of robbers
- Daniel was put into the lions’ den .
- a den of vice
- an opium den'''; a gambling '''den
- (Shakespeare)