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| 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, haven, hideaway, hideout, hole, home, immunity, ivory tower*, makeshift, opening, outlet, port, preserve, protection, recourse, resort, resource, retreat, sanctuary, security, shelter, shield, stopgap*, stronghold, way out, harborage, hiding place, safe place |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
refuge, sanctuary, retreat, fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison [more]; asylum, ark, home, refuge for the destitute; almshouse; hiding place (ambush) [more]; sanctum sanctorum (privacy) [more]., 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) [more]; fort (defense) [more]., anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick; mainstay; support [more]; cheek [more]; ballast., jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning rod, lightning conductor., means of escape (escape) [more] lifeboat, swimming belt, cork jacket; parachute, plank, steppingstone., safeguard (protection) [more].
-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 |
| Main Entry: | expedient |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resource |
| Synonyms: | contrivance, device, instrument, instrumentality, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, medium, method, recourse, refuge, resort, scheme, shift, stopgap, stratagem, substitute, gency |
| Main Entry: | hideout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hiding place |
| Synonyms: | cover, den, hideaway, refuge, safe house, sanctuary, shelter, safe place |
| Main Entry: | hut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny, often roughly built, house |
| Synonyms: | box*, cabin, camp, chalet, cot, cottage, crib*, den, dugout, dump*, hovel*, hutch, lean-to, lodge, pigeonhole*, refuge, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, wigwam, bungalow, cabana, log house, rathole, summer house, tepee |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | island |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | land surrounded by body of water |
| Synonyms: | atoll, bar, cay, haven, key, peninsula, reef, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, shelter, archipelago, enclave, isle, islet |
| Main Entry: | lair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hideout, habitat |
| Synonyms: | burrow, cave, den, earth, form, hideaway, hole, nest, pen, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, resting place |
| Main Entry: | makeshift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporary help |
| Synonyms: | expedient, last resort, recourse, refuge, replacement, resort, resource, shift, stopgap, substitute, expediency, pis aller |
| Antonyms: | permanent |
| Main Entry: | nest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | home |
| Synonyms: | aerie, breeding ground, burrow, den, haunt, hideaway, lair, refuge, roost |
| Main Entry: | port |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for boat docking, traffic, and storage |
| Synonyms: | anchorage, gate, harbor, haven, landing, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, shelter, wharf, boatyard, dockage, docks, dockyard, harborage, piers, roads, roadstead, seaport |
| 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: | protection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | care, guardianship |
| Synonyms: | aegis, armament, armor, assurance, barrier, buffer, bulwark, camouflage, certainty, charge, conservation, cover, custody, defense, fix, guard, insurance, preservation, refuge, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvation, screen, security, shelter, shield, stability, strength, surety, tutelage, umbrella*, ward, guarding, invulnerability, protecting, reassurance, self-defense, wardship |
| Antonyms: | attack, harm, hurt, injury, threat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alternative |
| Synonyms: | aid, appeal, choice, expedient, help, makeshift, option, refuge, remedy, resort, resource, shift, stopgap, substitute, support, way out, expediency, stand-by |
| Main Entry: | resource |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supply drawn upon, either material or nonmaterial |
| Synonyms: | ability, appliance, artifice, assets, capability, capital, cleverness, contraption, contrivance, course, creation, device, expedient, fortune, hoard, ingenuity, initiative, makeshift, means, measure, method, mode, nest egg*, property, recourse, refuge, relief, reserve, riches, shift, source, step, stock, stockpile, store, stratagem, substance, substitute, support, surrogate, system, talent, way, wealth, worth, inventiveness, quick-wittedness, resourcefulness |
| Antonyms: | product |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | safekeeping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
| Synonyms: | aegis, assurance, care, certainty, cover, custody, guardianship, insurance, preservation, refuge, safeguard, security, shelter, supervision, trust, guarding, protecting, reassurance |
| Main Entry: | safety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection from harm |
| Synonyms: | assurance, asylum, cover, defense, freedom, immunity, refuge, sanctuary, security, shelter, impregnability, inviolability, invulnerability, safeness |
| Antonyms: | danger, exposure, jeopardy, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | shelter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection, habitat |
| Synonyms: | apartment, asylum, cave, cover, covert, crib*, defense, den, dwelling, guard, guardian, harbor, haven, hermitage, hide, hideaway, hideout, home, house, housing, hut, joint*, lodging, pad*, pen, port, preserve, protector, rack, refuge, retreat, roof, roost*, safety, sanctuary, screen, security, shack, shade, shadow, shed, shield, tent, tower, turf, umbrella, co-op, condo, digs, harborage, hole in the wall, homeplate, quarterage, retirement, roof over head |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stopgap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporary help |
| Synonyms: | expedient, improvisation, makeshift, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, shift, substitute, Band-Aid, expediency, pis aller, temporary expedient |
| Antonyms: | permanent, solution, permanency |
| Main Entry: | substitute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone or something that takes the place of another |
| Synonyms: | agent, alternate, assistant, auxiliary, backup, delegate, deputy, double, dummy, equivalent, expedient, ghost, ghost writer, makeshift, proxy, recourse, refuge, relay, relief, replacement, representative, reserve, resort, resource, stand-in, standby, stopgap*, sub*, successor, supply, surrogate, symbol, temporary, understudy, vicar, changeling, dernier ressort, expediency, fill-in, locum, locum tenens, pinch-hitter, procurator, succedaneum, supplanter, temp, temporary expedient |
| Antonyms: | permanent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surrogate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or thing that acts as |
| Synonyms: | alternate, backup, delegate, deputy, expedient, makeshift, pinch hitter, proxy, recourse, refuge, replacement, representative, resort, resource, stand-in, stopgap*, sub*, expediency, fill-in, substitute agent |
| Antonyms: | real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tower |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very high building or building part |
| Synonyms: | belfry, castle, citadel, column, fort, fortification, fortress, keep, lookout, mast, monolith, obelisk, pillar, refuge, skyscraper, spire, steeple, stronghold, turret, cloud buster, high rise, minaret |
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