Dictionary Definition
refuge
Noun
1 a safe place; "He ran to safety" [syn: safety]
2 something or someone turned to for assistance
or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in
lying" [syn: recourse,
resort]
4 act of turning to for assistance; "have
recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last
resort" [syn: recourse,
resort]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From refuge.Pronunciation
- IPA:
Noun
- A state of safety, protection or shelter
- A place providing safety, protection or shelter
- Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort
Translations
A place providing safety, protection or shelter
- Dutch: schuilplaats
- Ewe: sitsoƒe
- Finnish: turvapaikka, suojapaikka
- Hebrew:
French
Etymology
From refugium.Pronunciation
Noun
fr-noun m- a refuge
Extensive Definition
Refuge is a place or state of safety. Refuge may also refer
to:
Other uses
- Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
- A place intended to shelter cultural property, in the context of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
- Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
- Refuge (ecology), a situation in which members of an exploited population have some form of protection from their exploiters (e.g. predators)
- A Christian programme for homosexual teenagers run by Love In Action
- Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a book by Terry Tempest Williams
- Refuge Records, a record label in the 1980s
- An 1999 episode of Law & Order
- The Refuge, an episode of The Outer Limits television series
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alibi,
apology, asylum, blind, bolt-hole, cache, citadel, cloak, color, concealment, corner, cover, cover story, cover-up,
covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner,
defense, den, dernier ressort, device, dodge, dugout, evasion, excuse, expediency, expedient, eye, facade, feint, foxhole, front, funk hole, gloss, guard, guise, handle, harbor, harborage, haven, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, immunity, lair, lame excuse, lee, locus standi, makeshift, mask, niche, nook, ostensible motive, poor
excuse, port, preservation, pretense, pretension, pretext, protection, protective
custody, protestation, public
motive, put-off, receipt, receiving, reception, recess, recourse, resort, retreat, ruse, safekeeping, safety, sanctuary, screen, secret place, security, semblance, shade, shadow, sham, shelter, shield, shift, show, smoke screen, stalking-horse,
stash, stopgap, stratagem, stronghold, substitute, subterfuge, taking in,
trick, undercovert, varnish, veil, watchful eye, welcome, welcoming