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shelter

noun
/ˈʃɛltə/UK/ˈʃɛltəɹ/US

Etymology

From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English sċildtruma, sċyldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from sċyld, sċield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim. Doublet of sheltron (a kind of military formation), which is the more conservative of the two.

  1. inherited from sċildtruma
  2. inherited from sheltron

Definitions

  1. Somewhere one can find protection.

    • The band of explorers found a shelter behind the waterfall, which they rested at for three days.
    • rock shelter

  2. That which provides protection or cover.

    • Along with air, water, and food, shelter is often recognized as a human necessity.

  3. The state of being protected or shielded.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To provide cover from damage or harassment

      To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

      • Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
      • You have no convents […] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.

    2. To take cover.

      • During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

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Derived

Adirondack shelter, air-raid shelter, Anderson shelter, animal shelter, bomb shelter, bus shelter, cooling shelter, enshelter, fallout shelter, fall-out shelter, homeless shelter, inshelter, kill shelter, Morrison shelter, night shelter, no-kill shelter, rock shelter, shelterable, shelterage, shelter belt, shelterbelt, sheltercraft, shelter deck, shelter dog, shelteree, shelterer, shelter half, shelter-half, shelterin, shelter in place, shelter-in-place, shelterless, sheltermate, sheltersome, shelter tent, shelterwood, sheltery, tax shelter, tornado shelter, typhoon shelter · +2 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shelter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01shelter02protected03defended04defenses05defense06protecting07protect08safe

A definitional loop anchored at shelter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at shelter

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA