Synonyms for Shelters:

n.
• defenses
- Fortresses
- Securities
- arguments
- armors
- aversions
- barriers
- countermeasures
- defenses
- harbors
- moats
- protections
- rebuttals
- responses
- strongholds
- walls
• refuges
- Asylums
- Sanctuaries
- dugouts
- foxholes
- havens
- hideouts
- refuges
v.
• defends
- Buffers
- Guards
- Replies
- answers
- argues
- averts
- backfires
- barricades
- bars
- counterattacks
- counters
- covers
- defends
- fends
- opposes
- polices
- protects
- rebuts
- resists
- responds
- retorts
- returns
- safeguards
- saves
- screens
- secures
- shields
- supports
- sustains
- upholds
- wards
• protects
- conserves
- maintains
- preserves
Other relevant words:

• encampment

barracks

What are the paraphrases for Shelters?

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Reverse Entailment
- Noun, plural
  Sheltering, dugouts, harbors, tents, pavilions, huts, harbours.
Independent
- Proper noun, plural
  Facilities, establishments, centers, NSCS, centres.
- Proper noun, singular
  accommodation, accommodations.
- Noun, plural
  accommodation, auspices, bounds, centre, flats, greeting, quarters, reserves, rings, rooms, seats, shed, spots, stands, stops, stores, welcome, Areas, Casings, Dormitories, Facilities, Families, Focuses, Foci, Ones, Remedies, Villas, Stations, Properties, Studios, Trees, Cells, Fathers, Habitats, Hospitals, Interviews, Outbreaks, Plants, Prisons, Residencies, Schools, sheds, seniors, cabins, residences, inmates, tenants, holes, pockets, pits, welcomes, arrangements, caves, accommodations, terminals, places, caches, sources, fires, establishments, livelihoods, repairs, screens, structures, tenders, covers, safeguards, coats, points, providers, locations, placements, sites, halls, settings, buildings, bores, protects, protections, apartments, flames, units, colleges, estates, centers, hubs, hosted, scaffolds, retreats, kits, dampers, clinics, lodges, coverings, fireplaces, furnaces, hearths, hotels, resorts, villages, outlets, SQS, NODES, HOS, CASAS, CAMPS, NESTS, housewives, theatres, homemakers, clusters, homelands, lairs, institutions, publishers, kiosks, demolitions, booths, rentals, installations, venues, hotspots, homeowners, hotbeds, superstructures, asylum-seekers, centres, fortifications, bunkers, flashpoints, accomodations, centros.
Other Related
- Proper noun, plural
  Sanctuaries, refuges.
- Proper noun, singular
  hostel, housing, sanctuary, Sanctuaries, hostels.
- Noun, plural
  host, housings, lodgings, premises, Sanctuaries, Households, Orphanages, Refugees, dwellings, habitations, residents, settlements, overcoats, hideouts, refuges, hosts, hostels, foyers, hovels, guesthouses.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  Sanctuaries, refuges, hostels.

What are the hypernyms for Shelters?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
lodgings, quarters, abodes, dwellings, habitations, accommodations, havens.

Usage examples for Shelters

"Have no fears on that score, sir," said she, proudly; "they may insult the roof that shelters me, to myself they will offer no outrage.

"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"

Charles James Lever

In enforced efforts to spread out our stiffened legs over the last reaches, there was left no longer sufficient energy at camping times to erect snow shelters.

"My Attainment of the Pole"

Frederick A. Cook

She meant to reach one of the shelters and sit down there to read.

"Girls of the Forest"

L. T. Meade

Famous quotes with Shelters

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

Spencer Bachus
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

Paul Bowles
On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

Jay Inslee
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Dirk Kempthorne

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