Definition of Shelter

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Shelter

That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

One who protects; a guardian; a defender.

The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.

To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.

To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.

To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.

To take shelter.

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Shelter Quotations

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Buddha

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
Ernest Holmes

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Francis of Assisi

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
William S. Burroughs

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson

Shelter Translations

shelter in Afrikaans is toevlugsoord
shelter in Danish is asyl
shelter in Dutch is bunker, kazemat
shelter in Finnish is suojata
shelter in French is abritez, abritent, abritons, blockhaus, abri
shelter in German is Schuppen, Schutz, Obdach, Schutzdach
shelter in Hungarian is oltalom
shelter in Italian is protezione, riparare, ricovero, riparo, rifugio
shelter in Latin is defendo
shelter in Portuguese is abrigo
shelter in Spanish is amparo
shelter in Swedish is skydd, skyddsrum, skydda

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