Meaning of refuge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of safety, protection or shelter
2. A state of safety, protection or shelter.
   countable, uncountable
3. A place providing safety, protection or shelter
4. A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
   countable, uncountable
5. (a place which gives) shelter or protection from danger, trouble etc. The escaped prisoner sought refuge in the church. skuiling مَلْجأ подслон refúgio úkryt, útočiště die Zuflucht tilflugt καταφύγιο, άσυλοrefugio varjupaik پناه گاه پناه suoja refugeמחסה शरण utočište, sklonište menedék perlindungan skÿli, athvarf rifugio 避難 피난처 prieglobstis, prieglauda glābiņš; patvērums perlindungan schuilplaats ly, tilflukt; asylschronienie سيب (سيو)، پناه ګاه، امن ځاى refúgio refugiu; adăpost убежище úkryt...
   etc
6. safety
7. Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort
8. Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
   countable, uncountable
9. a person who seeks shelter especially in another country, from war, disaster, or persecution. Refugees were pouring across the frontier; (also adjective) a refugee camp. vlugteling لاجِئ бежанец refugiado uprchlík der Flüchtling, Flüchtlings-... flygtning; flygtninge- πρόσφυγαςrefugiado põgenik پناهنده؛ پناه جو turvapaikanhakija (de) réfugié/-ée פליט शरणार्थी izbjeglica menekült pengungsi flóttamaður rifugiato 難民 난민 pabėgėlis bēglis pelarian vluchtelingflyktninguchodźca سيب نيوونكى، پناه وړون...
   especially
10. first-person singular present indicative of refugiar
11. An expedient to secure protection or defence
12. An expedient to secure protection or defence.
    countable, uncountable
13. Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship: sought refuge from the storm in a cabin.
14. A refuge island
15. A refuge island.
    countable, uncountable
16. A place providing protection or shelter: a colony that was a refuge for religious nonconformists.
17. A source of help, relief, or comfort in times of trouble: "Reva's love was her refuge from shame and degradation" (Richard Wright). See Synonyms at shelter.
18. shelter or protection, as from the weather or danger
19. any place, person, action, or thing that offers or appears to offer protection, help, or relief: accused of incompetence, he took refuge in lying.
20. (Human Geography) another name for traffic island
21. archaic to take refuge or give refuge to
    archaic
22. shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge.”

“One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.”

“Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.”

“Their latest refuge / Was to send him.”

“This is occaſioned by this, that too too often the Teaching of a Grammar School is the ordinary Refuge that deſperate Perſons as to any other Employment in good Learning betake themſelves to; whilſt but a few know themſelves ſuited with intellectual and moral Abilities, and fewer have that Encouragement, when they undertake it, their Pains deſerve.”

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