WARREN

Pronunciation (US):

• WARREN (noun)
  The noun WARREN has 5 senses:

1. United States writer and poet (1905-1989)
2. United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
3. a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
4. an overcrowded residential area
5. a colony of rabbits

  Familiarity information: WARREN used as a noun is common.

• WARREN (noun)

Meaning:

United States writer and poet (1905-1989)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Robert Penn Warren; Warren

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Earl Warren; Warren

Instance hypernyms:

chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)

Meaning:

A series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

rabbit warren; warren

Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):

burrow; tunnel (a hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter)

Meaning:

An overcrowded residential area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

rabbit warren; warren

Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):

community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)

Meaning:

A colony of rabbits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("warren" is a kind of...):

animal group (a group of animals)

Meronyms (members of "warren"):

coney; cony; rabbit (any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food)