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shelter
Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather:
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  1. Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather:
  2. The state of being covered or protected; protection; refuge
  3. Something that covers or protects; protection, or place affording protection, as from the elements or danger
refuge
A state of safety, protection or shelter.
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  1. A state of safety, protection or shelter.
  2. Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship:
  3. A place of safety; shelter; safe retreat
safety
A catch or locking device on a firearm that prevents it from firing
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  1. A catch or locking device on a firearm that prevents it from firing
  2. A device designed to prevent accidents, as a lock on a firearm preventing accidental firing.
  3. The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk, or injury.
home
(Computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the Internet to the top of the web page.
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  1. (Computing) A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the first character of the current line, or on the Internet to the top of the web page.
  2. A place thought of as home
  3. (--- Games) Home base.
hospice
A homelike facility to provide supportive care for terminally ill patients
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  1. A homelike facility to provide supportive care for terminally ill patients
  2. A shelter or lodging for travelers, pilgrims, foundlings, or the destitute, especially one maintained by a monastic order.
  3. A home for the sick or poor
hospital
An institution providing medical, surgical, or psychiatric testing and treatment for people who are ill, injured, pregnant, etc. on an inpatient, outpatient, or emergency care basis: often involved with public health programs, research, medical education, etc.
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  1. An institution providing medical, surgical, or psychiatric testing and treatment for people who are ill, injured, pregnant, etc. on an inpatient, outpatient, or emergency care basis: often involved with public health programs, research, medical education, etc.
  2. A repair shop for specified items:
  3. (Chiefly British) A charitable institution, such as an orphanage or a home for the elderly.
shelter
Something that covers or protects; protection, or place affording protection, as from the elements or danger
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  1. Something that covers or protects; protection, or place affording protection, as from the elements or danger
  2. The state of being covered or protected:
  3. Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather:
cover
Strategic protection given by armed units during hostile action:
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  1. Strategic protection given by armed units during hostile action:
  2. Shelter or protection:
  3. A shelter for protection, as from gunfire
covert
(Ornithology) Any of the small feathers covering a particular area of a bird, as the bases of the larger feathers of a wing or tail
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  1. (Ornithology) Any of the small feathers covering a particular area of a bird, as the bases of the larger feathers of a wing or tail
  2. A covered or protected place; shelter
  3. A covering or cover.
harbor
A protected inlet, or branch of a sea, lake, etc., where ships can anchor, esp. one with port facilities
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  1. A protected inlet, or branch of a sea, lake, etc., where ships can anchor, esp. one with port facilities
  2. A place of refuge, safety, etc.; retreat; shelter
  3. A sheltered part of a body of water deep enough to provide anchorage for ships.
haven
A harbor or anchorage; a port.
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  1. A harbor or anchorage; a port.
  2. A place of refuge or rest; a sanctuary.
protection
Payment made by racketeers to officials or law enforcement to avoid arrest or prosecution.
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  1. Payment made by racketeers to officials or law enforcement to avoid arrest or prosecution.
  2. Something that lowers the risk of pregnancy or infection, especially the use of a condom.
  3. One that protects:
refuge
Shelter or protection from danger, difficulty, etc.
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  1. Shelter or protection from danger, difficulty, etc.
  2. An expedient to secure protection or defence.
  3. Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship:
retreat
A place affording peace, quiet, privacy, or security.
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  1. A place affording peace, quiet, privacy, or security.
  2. An organized group withdrawal from regular activities for a given purpose, as by colleagues meeting away from the office and engaging in exercises for promoting teamwork, creativity, etc.
  3. The act or process of moving back or away, especially from something hazardous, formidable, or unpleasant:
sanctuary
A holy place, as a building set aside for worship of the divinity or of one or more deities
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  1. A holy place, as a building set aside for worship of the divinity or of one or more deities
  2. A particularly holy place within a church or temple, as the part around the altar, the holy of holies in the Jewish Temple, etc.
  3. A place of refuge or protection; asylum: orig., fugitives from justice were immune from arrest in churches or other sacred places
shelter
The state of being covered or protected; protection; refuge
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  1. The state of being covered or protected; protection; refuge
  2. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  3. Something that covers or protects; protection, or place affording protection, as from the elements or danger
harborage
Shelter or lodgings
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  1. Shelter or lodgings
  2. (US, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
  3. Shelter; refuge.
refuge
An expediency or shift; action taken to escape trouble or difficulty
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  1. An expediency or shift; action taken to escape trouble or difficulty
  2. A place providing protection or shelter:
  3. Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship:
sanctuary
A holy place, as a building set aside for worship of the divinity or of one or more deities
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  1. A holy place, as a building set aside for worship of the divinity or of one or more deities
  2. A sacred place, such as a church, temple, or mosque.
  3. A place of refuge or asylum.
shelter
The state of being covered or protected; protection; refuge
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  1. The state of being covered or protected; protection; refuge
  2. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  3. Something that covers or protects; protection, or place affording protection, as from the elements or danger
Find another word for asylum. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for asylum, like: shelter, refuge, safety, shelter, See syn. study at, home, hospice, hospital, shelter, cover and covert.

Sentence Examples

  • Let him prepare an asylum for them in Russia!

  • Your excellency, the superintendent of the lunatic asylum has come: what are your commands?

  • In the vicinity are the Surrey county asylum and a female convict prison.

  • Venice, like Rome and other famous cities, was an asylum city.

  • The Oxford Orphan Asylum at Oxford (1872) is supported partly by the Masonic Order and partly by the state.

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