Noun
tracking the bear back to its lair
She runs the project from her private lair in the suburbs.
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Following a trip to Bash Steed’s villainous lair, our trio returns home, where they’re confronted by Renée Zellweger’s Camila White.—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 7 Oct. 2025 Even diligent Webberheads will need to overlook certain gaffes, like a hero who seems to have tied himself up in a climactic moment and a Stygian lair well marked with glowing Exit signs.—Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025 In the Henchmen's Heist room, participants have been hired by a super villain to break into a high security superhero lair and steal valuable assets before the hero returns.—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025 The first stage of the final HOH contest had the final three flying in drones off the coast of BB City searching for the Mastermind’s new lair.—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 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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