Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of nest
adjectivenested (not comparable)
- not comparableEmbedded.
- not comparableSuccessively fitted one inside another.
- not comparablehuman sciences(Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297
Translations
Catalan imbricat
- imbricatsuccessively fitted one inside another
Finnish kerrosteinen
- kerrosteinensuccessively fitted one inside another
French imbriqué
- imbriquésuccessively fitted one inside another
German verschachtelt
- verschachteltsuccessively fitted one inside another
Greek ένθετος, εμφωλευμένος
- ένθετος (énthetos)successively fitted one inside another
- εμφωλευμένος (emfolevménos)successively fitted one inside another
Hebrew מקונן \ מְקֻנָּן
- מקונן \ מְקֻנָּן (m'kunán)successively fitted one inside another
Russian вложенный
- вложенный (vložennyj)successively fitted one inside another
Spanish anidado
- anidadosuccessively fitted one inside another
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
nested. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nested
MLA
“nested.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nested. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nested,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nested.
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