Shelter - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- protective covering that provides protection from the weather
- the condition of being protected (syn: protection)
- a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
- temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
verb
Extra examples
We made a shelter from branches.
The organization provides food and shelter for homeless people.
The crowd ran for shelter when the rain started.
They sought shelter from the storm.
A cave sheltered the climbers during the storm.
They sheltered in a cave while they waited for the storm to pass.
This house sheltered him for twenty years.
The climbers had to shelter from the snowstorm in a mountain hut.
He always sheltered himself behind his father's authority.
You can't shelter your brother from blame in the accident.
They are in need of food and shelter.
We reached the shelter of the caves.
They were standing under the shelter of a huge tree.
The men took shelter in a bombed-out farmhouse.
All around me, people were running for shelter.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: shelter
he/she/it: shelters
present participle: sheltering
past tense: sheltered
past participle: sheltered
singular: shelter
plural: shelters
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