nest
noun
[ nɛst ]
• a structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young.
• "two sparrows frantically building a nest"
• a place filled with undesirable people, activities, or things.
• "a nest of spies"
• a set of similar objects of graduated sizes, made so that each smaller one fits into the next in size for storage.
• "a nest of tables"
nest
verb
• (of a bird or other animal) use or build a nest.
• "the owls often nest in barns"
• fit (an object or objects) inside a larger one.
• "the town is nested inside a large crater on the flanks of a volcano"
Origin:
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Latin nidus, from the Indo-European bases of nether (meaning ‘down’) and sit.
