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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hiding place |
| Synonyms: | asylum, camouflage, concealment, covert, defense, drop, front, guard, harbor, harborage, haven, port, protection, refuge, retreat, safety, sanctuary, screen, security, shelter |
| Main Entry: | haven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refuge, port |
| Synonyms: | anchorage, asylum, cover, covert, harbor, harborage, retreat, roadstead, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter |
| Main Entry: | port |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for boat docking, traffic, and storage |
| Synonyms: | anchorage, boatyard, dockage, docks, dockyard, gate, harbor, harborage, haven, landing, piers, refuge, retreat, roads, roadstead, sanctuary, seaport, shelter, wharf |
| Notes: | harbor first meant 'shelter' and 'lodging' and that is how the word first entered English place-names, as a 'place of shelter; refuge' for a crowd of people; a port is a haven for vessels and it is equipped for loading and unloading ships, while a harbor is a haven for vessels but does not necessarily have onshore facilities port, as in lefthand side, was probably originally the side of a boat turned toward the port for cargo loading; port is the lefthand side (when facing forward) and starboard is the righthand side of a ship starboard is the righthand side and port is the lefthand side when facing forward on a ship or boat |
| Main Entry: | refuge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place to hide, have privacy |
| Synonyms: | ambush, anchorage, asylum, cover, covert, den, escape, exit, expedient, fortress, harbor, harborage, haven, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hole, home, immunity, ivory tower, makeshift, opening, outlet, port, preserve, protection, recourse, resort, resource, retreat, safe place, sanctuary, security, shelter, shield, stopgap, stronghold, way out |
| Main Entry: | sanctuary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place to hide, be safe |
| Synonyms: | asylum, church, convent, cover, covert, defense, den, harbor, harborage, haven, hideaway, hideout, hole, hole-up, ivory tower, oasis, port, protection, refuge, resort, retreat, safe house, screen, shelter, shield |
| Main Entry: | sanctuary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | safe place for wildlife |
| Synonyms: | asylum, conservation area, game refuge, harborage, national park, nature preserve, park, preserve, refuge, reserve, retreat, shelter |
| Main Entry: | shelter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection, habitat |
| Synonyms: | apartment, asylum, cave, co-op, condo, cover, covert, crib*, defense, den, digs, dwelling, guard, guardian, harbor, harborage, haven, hermitage, hide, hideaway, hideout, hole in the wall, home, homeplate, house, housing, hut, joint*, lodging, pad, pen, port, preserve, protector, quarterage, rack, refuge, retirement, retreat, roof, roof over head, roost, safety, sanctuary, screen, security, shack, shade, shadow, shed, shield, tent, tower, turf, umbrella |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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antipudic, apatetic, armor, conchiferous, conchitic, conchological, cortical, covered, covering, cutaneous, cuticular, cyanotic, decorticated, deric, dermal, desquamate, doughfaced, echinulate, enameled, encrusted, encuirassed, flue, furfuraceous, galericulate, imbricate, imbricated, incanous, ironclad, lanuginous, lepidote, lined, loricated, lutose, overlaid, pastose, plumulaceous, procryptic, rorulent, scaled, scaly, scurfy, skinny, squamaceous, squamate, squamous, stegocephalic, stimulose, strigillose, stupulose, superincumbent, superjacent, tegumentary, tomentose, under cover
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| Concept: | [Means of safety.] Refuge. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
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-nouns
refuge, sanctuary, retreat, fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison; asylum, ark, home, refuge for the destitute; almshouse; hiding place (ambush); sanctum sanctorum (privacy)., roadstead, anchorage; breakwater, mole, port, haven; harbor, harbor of refuge; seaport; pier, jetty, embankment, quay., covert, cover, shelter, screen, lee wall, wing, shield, umbrella; barrier; dashboard, dasher [U.S.]., wall (inclosure); fort (defense)., anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick; mainstay; support; cheek; ballast., jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning rod, lightning conductor., means of escape (escape) lifeboat, swimming belt, cork jacket; parachute, plank, steppingstone., safeguard (protection).
-verbs
seek refuge, take refuge, find refuge; seek safety, find safety [more]; throw oneself into the arms of; break for taller timber [U.S.]., create a diversion.
-phrases
bibere venenum in auro; valet anchora virtus.
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| Antonyms: | pitfall |
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