Noun
tracking the bear back to its lair
She runs the project from her private lair in the suburbs.
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Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor is an evil mad scientist with plans for destruction and domination, armed with Kryptonite and a subterranean lair shared.—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025 Uth Duna, an eel-like leviathan, hits like a truck and moves erratically within its watery lair.—PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025 Two days later, the mountain lion heads toward the log for a mid-afternoon nap but pauses to investigate the various scents around its lair.—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2025 Martini stories operate in a glamorous world where bad guys live in lairs, femmes fatales wait at every backgammon table, and our hero drives fast cars and seldom takes off a tuxedo.—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lair
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English leger; akin to Old High German legar bed, Old English licgan to lie — more at lie
Verb
Scots lair mire
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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