name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old French.
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Standard Lemma guide
warren
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Pronunciation
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/ˈwɒɹən/
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US: /ˈwɔɹən/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɒɹən/
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General-American: /ˈwɔɹən/
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name
Meaning 2
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
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Meaning 3
A placename:
A location in Australia.
A town in New South Wales.
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Meaning 4
A placename:
A location in Australia.
A local government area in central-northern New South Wales which includes the town; in full, Warren Shire.
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Meaning 5
A placename:
A location in Australia.
A geographic region in southern Western Australia.
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Meaning 6
A placename:
A place in Canada:
A community in the Rural Municipality of Woodlands, Manitoba; named for railroad executive A. E. Warren.
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Meaning 7
A placename:
A place in Canada:
A community in Markstay-Warren municipality, Sudbury District, Ontario.
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Meaning 8
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A community in the city of Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona.
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Meaning 9
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A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Bradley County, Arkansas.
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Meaning 10
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A number of places in the United States:
A former settlement near Fellows, Kern County, California.
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Meaning 11
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A former settlement near Mojave, Kern County, California.
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Meaning 12
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A number of places in the United States:
A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut; named for Joseph Warren.
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Meaning 13
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Idaho County, Idaho.
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Meaning 14
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A village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois; named for Warren Burnett, the first white child born in the area.
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Meaning 15
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A town in Salamonie Township, Huntington County, Indiana.
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Meaning 16
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Knox County, Kentucky.
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Meaning 17
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A town in Knox County, Maine; named for Joseph Warren.
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Meaning 18
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A town and census-designated place therein, in Worcester County, Massachusetts; named for Joseph Warren.
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Meaning 19
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A city in Macomb County, Michigan; named for War of 1812 veteran Rev. Abel Warren.
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Meaning 20
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A city, the county seat of Marshall County, Minnesota; named for railroad executive Charles Howard Warren.
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Meaning 21
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An unincorporated community in Marion County, Missouri; named for its township, itself for Joseph Warren.
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Meaning 22
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An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana.
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Meaning 23
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A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire; named for Peter Warren.
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Meaning 24
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A number of places in the United States:
A township in Somerset County, New Jersey.
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Meaning 25
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A number of places in the United States:
A town and hamlet therein, in Herkimer County, New York; named for Joseph Warren.
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Meaning 26
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A city, the county seat of Trumbull County, Ohio; named for surveyor Moses Warren.
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Meaning 27
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A census-designated place in Columbia County, Oregon; named for the town in Massachusetts.
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Meaning 28
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A city, the county seat of Warren County, Pennsylvania; named for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren.
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Meaning 29
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A town in Bristol County, Rhode Island; named for British naval officer Peter Warren.
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Meaning 30
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A former settlement in Texas, and the former county seat of Fannin County.
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Meaning 31
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A census-designated place in Tyler County, Texas.
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Meaning 32
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An unincorporated community in Weber County, Utah; named for Utah politician and Mormon leader Lewis Warren Shurtliff.
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Meaning 33
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A town in Washington County, Vermont; named for Joseph Warren.
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Meaning 34
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
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Meaning 35
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A town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
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Meaning 36
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A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
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Meaning 37
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A number of places in the United States:
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Warren Township.
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Meaning 38
A placename:
A place in the United Kingdom:
A neighbourhood of Gawsworth, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8870).
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Meaning 39
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A place in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Bere Regis parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY8591).
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Meaning 40
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A place in the United Kingdom:
A small settlement near Chapeltown, Ecclesfield parish, City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3597).
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Meaning 41
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A place in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Stackpole and Castlemartin community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SR9397).
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Meaning 42
* see: The Warren.
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noun
Meaning 43
A system of burrows in which rabbits live.
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noun
Meaning 44
A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
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noun
Meaning 45
The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 46
A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
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noun
Meaning 47
The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.
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noun
Meaning 48
a colony of rabbits
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Broader terms: animal group
noun
Meaning 49
an overcrowded residential area
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Synonyms: rabbit warren
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Broader terms: residential district, residential area, community
noun
Meaning 50
a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
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Synonyms: rabbit warren
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Broader terms: burrow, tunnel
noun
Meaning 51
United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
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Synonyms: Earl Warren
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Broader terms: chief justice
noun
Meaning 52
United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
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Synonyms: Robert Penn Warren
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Broader terms: poet, writer, author
History
Etymology
From the Anglo-Norman surname (de) Warenne, a reference to a place called Varenne, a hamlet near Arques-la-Bataille, along the river Varenne in Normandy, from Medieval Latin Warinna, a hydronym of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from *var-, *ver- (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the Latin river Avara. Phonetic Germanic influence is shown by the [v] > [w].
From Middle English warenne, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French warenne (compare Old French guarenne, garenne (“game-park”)), probably ultimately from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“ward off, defend against”); compare also Old French warir, guarir, a borrowing from this Germanic root. Alternatively from Gaulish *warrennā (“enclosed area”), from *warros (“stick, post”), Proto-Celtic *warrā (“post, prop”).
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: králičí nory — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Czech: králičí kolonie — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Dutch: konijnenheuvel — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Dutch: konijnenberg — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Finnish: koloverkosto — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- French: garenne — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- German: Kaninchenbau — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- German: Kaninchenloch — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Hungarian: üreg — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Hungarian: járat — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Hungarian: lyuk — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Irish: coinicéar — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Italian: garenna — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Macedonian: зајчарник (zajčarnik) — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Portuguese: toca — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Portuguese: covil — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Portuguese: madrigueira — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Romanian: vizuină — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Romansh: cunigliera — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Russian: уча́сток, где во́дятся кро́лики (učástok, gde vódjatsja króliki) — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Spanish: madriguera — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Welsh: cwningar — the system of burrows where rabbits live
- Bulgarian: лабири́нт (labirínt) — labyrinthine place
- Czech: bludiště — labyrinthine place
- Finnish: sokkelo — labyrinthine place
- Hungarian: útvesztő — labyrinthine place
- Hungarian: sűrű/áttekinthetetlen hely — labyrinthine place
- Russian: «мураве́йник» — labyrinthine place
- Middle English: warenne — a place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits
- Russian: кро́личий садо́к (króličij sadók) — a place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits
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