📖 Определения и значения для слова shelter
📒 the fact of having a place to live or stay, considered as a basic human need
- Human beings need food, clothing and shelter.
- without shelter In developing countries, more than 640 million are without shelter.
- The nuns won't refuse you shelter.
📒 protection from rain, danger, or attack
- shelter from something to take shelter from the storm
- People were desperately seeking shelter from the gunfire.
- The sand dunes provided shelter from the wind.
📒 a structure built to give protection, especially from the weather or from attack
- They built a rough shelter from old pieces of wood.
- He helped construct temporary shelters in 10 villages before the rains came.
- an air-raid shelter
📒 a building, usually owned by a charity, that provides a place to stay for people without a home, or protection for people or animals who have been badly treated
- a night shelter for homeless people
- an animal shelter
- She works as a volunteer at a homeless shelter.