Words / B2

SHELT-uh/ˈʃeltə/

A shelter is a place that protects you, or protection itself: a night shelter; shelter from the storm. Refuge is close; housing is wider. The enquiry maps night-shelter beds. Verb: shelter someone. Mix-up: helper is a person who helps; shelve is to put off. Do not call a hotel a shelter unless it is emergency provision.

Meaning

A place that protects you from weather or danger; also protection itself.

Examples

• “The geography enquiry maps night-shelter beds, not only rough-sleeping counts.”
• “They sheltered from the squall in the hut, which is the verb sense.”

Good to know

a night / bomb / animal shelter; shelter from; take shelter. Close: refuge. Trap: helper / shelve. Geography, history, and news. Protection, not a holiday hotel.

Near in meaning

refuge

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