WordNet Search

Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations

Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"

S: (n) safety, refuge (a safe place) "He ran to safety"
S: (n) recourse, refuge, resort (something or someone turned to for assistance or security) "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"

S: (n) cookhouse (a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking) "the circus used a tent as their cookhouse"
S: (n) dugout (either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game)
S: (n) fallout shelter (a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb)
S: (n) haven, oasis (a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary)
S: (n) hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty (small crude shelter used as a dwelling)
S: (n) hut, army hut, field hut (temporary military shelter)
S: (n) loft, pigeon loft (a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept)
S: (n) mantelet, mantlet (portable bulletproof shelter)
S: (n) refuge, sanctuary, asylum (a shelter from danger or hardship)
S: (n) sconce (a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather)
S: (n) storm cellar, cyclone cellar, tornado cellar (an underground shelter where you can go until a storm passes)
S: (n) tent, collapsible shelter (a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)) "he pitched his tent near the creek"

S: (n) recourse, resort, refuge (act of turning to for assistance) "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"