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nestnoun a place or environment that favors the development of somethingsuspected that the elite private universities were a nest of antigovernment sentiments breeding ground, hotbed, hothouse, nidus, nursery, seedbed, seminary cruciblebase, capital, center, core, cynosure, eye, focus, heart, hub, mecca, nucleus, seatfocus, headquarters a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid othersheaded back to her cozy nest in the mountains for a little rest and relaxation concealment, covert, den, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hidey-hole(or hidy-hole), lair blind, cover, nook, recesshangout, harbor, harborage, haunt, haven, redoubt, refuge, retreat, shelter before the 12th century |