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say it: NEH-stur
nester is a noun meaning "someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it". It carries 2 recorded senses.
someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
a bird that has built (or is building) a nest
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nester come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.