[
  {
    "word": "nest",
    "phonetic": "/n\u025bst/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/n\u025bst/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/nest-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2100806",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A retreat, or place of habitual resort.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "That nightclub is a nest of strange people!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I am aspiring to leave the nest."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A fortified position for a weapon.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To settle into a home.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To successively neatly fit inside another.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To place in, or as if in, a nest.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually \"go nesting\").",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nest"
    ]
  }
]