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- Dictionaryrefuge/ˈrɛfjuːdʒ/
noun
- 1. the state of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or difficulty: "he was forced to take refuge in the French embassy"
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(a place that gives) protection or shelter from danger, trouble, unhappiness, etc.: These people are seeking /taking refuge from persecution. The climbers slept in a mountain refuge. She had fled from her violent husband to a women's refuge. Fewer examples. Hundreds of dissidents are seeking refuge in the US embassy.
The meaning of REFUGE is shelter or protection from danger or distress. How to use refuge in a sentence. Finding Refuge
any place, person, action, or thing that offers or appears to offer protection, help, or relief. accused of incompetence, he took refuge in lying. another name for traffic island.
4 meanings: 1. shelter or protection, as from the weather or danger 2. any place, person, action, or thing that offers or.... Click for more definitions.
A refuge is a safe place, such as a building or even another country, as in "they sought refuge from the war by leaving their homeland," or it is a simple, personal place of comfort — like a friend's couch.
n. 1. shelter or protection, as from the weather or danger. 2. any place, person, action, or thing that offers or appears to offer protection, help, or relief: accused of incompetence, he took refuge in lying. 3. (Human Geography) another name for traffic island. vb. archaic to take refuge or give refuge to.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary. [countable] a building that provides a temporary home for people in need of shelter or protection from somebody/something. The best option for a female victim of domestic abuse is to contact a women's refuge.
