Dens: a secret place where people meet (noun)
This is the meaning of the word dens according to collinsdictionary.com. I saw this word when I was reading the article “Today’s Masculinity is stifling” on October 15th, 2018. It was on paragraph 10 in the sentence “Last year, when the Boys Scouts of America announced that they would begin admitting girls into their dens, young women saw a wall come down around a territory that was theirs to occupy. Girls were never able to be part of the boys scouts before this, and now they get to be part of a group which before, only had boys in it. Now they get to be part of the boys group or dens which is how i understood what the word dens meant by seeing it in this context.
