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sheltered

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shel·ter  (shltr)
n.
1.
a. Something that provides cover or protection, as from the weather.
b. A refuge; a haven.
c. An establishment that provides temporary housing for homeless people.
2. The state of being covered or protected.
v. shel·tered, shel·ter·ing, shel·ters
v.tr.
1. To provide cover or protection for.
2. To invest (income) to protect it from taxation.
v.intr.
To take cover; find refuge.

[Perhaps from Middle English sheltron, tight battle formation, from Old English scildtruma : scield, shield; see shield + truma, troop; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

shelter·er n.
shelter·less adj.
Synonyms: shelter, cover, retreat, refuge, asylum, sanctuary
These nouns refer to places affording protection, as from danger, or to the state of being protected. Shelter usually implies a covered or enclosed area that protects temporarily, as from injury or attack: built a shelter out of pine and hemlock boughs.
Cover suggests something that conceals: traveled under cover of darkness.
Retreat applies chiefly to a secluded place to which one retires for meditation, peace, or privacy: a rural cabin that served as a weekend retreat.
Refuge suggests a place of escape from pursuit or from difficulties that beset one: "The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life" (George Bernard Shaw).
Asylum adds to refuge the idea of legal protection or of immunity from arrest: "O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind" (Thomas Paine).
Sanctuary denotes a sacred or inviolable place of refuge: political refugees finding sanctuary in a monastery.

sheltered [ˈʃɛltəd]
adj
1. protected from wind or weather a sheltered garden
2. protected from outside influences a sheltered upbringing
3. (Social Welfare) (of buildings) specially designed to provide a safe environment for the elderly, handicapped, or disabled sheltered workshops for the blind See also sheltered housing
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.sheltered - protected from danger or bad weather; "a sheltered harbor"
invulnerable - immune to attack; impregnable; "gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs"

sheltered
adjective
1. screened, covered, protected, shielded, secluded a shallow-sloping beach next to a sheltered bay
screened open, exposed, unprotected, public, made public, laid bare, unconcealed, unsheltered
2. protected, screened, shielded, quiet, withdrawn, isolated, secluded, cloistered, reclusive, ensconced, hermitic, conventual She had a sheltered upbringing.
Translations
sheltered [ˈʃeltəd] ADJ [harbour, valley, garden] → protegido; [industry] → protegido(contra la competencia extranjera)
a sheltered environment (fig) → un ambiente protegido
sheltered housingresidencia f vigilada(para ancianos)
she has led a very sheltered lifeha tenido una vida muy protegida
sheltered [ˈʃɛltərd] adj
[life, upbringing] → protégé(e)
[spot] → abrité(e); [harbour, bay] → abrité(e)
sheltered accommodation sheltered housing n (British) (for the elderly)logement-foyer m; (for the disabled)foyer m d'hébergement pour handicapés
sheltered
adj placegeschützt; lifebehütet; sheltered from the windwindgeschützt

sheltered:
sheltered housing
n (for the elderly) → Wohnungen plfür Senioren; (for the disabled) → Wohnungen plfür Behinderte
sheltered workshop
sheltered [ˈʃɛltəd] adj (place) → riparato/a; (childhood) → sereno/a, senza problemi; (environment) → protetto/a
she has led a very sheltered life → è vissuta nella bambagia
sheltered [ˈʃɛltəd] adj (place) → riparato/a; (childhood) → sereno/a, senza problemi; (environment) → protetto/a
she has led a very sheltered life → è vissuta nella bambagia


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The grasshoppers and sparrows entreated him not to cut down the tree that sheltered them, but to spare it, and they would sing to him and lighten his labors.
Any one possessing a mile or two of secluded seaboard, cut off on the land side by precipitous approaches, and including a sheltered river mouth ingeniously hidden by nature, in the form of a jutting wall of rock, from the sea, might have made as good use of these natural opportunities as the nobleman in question, had they only been as wise and as rich.
The terrible sea, the frail boat, the storms, the suffering, the strangeness and isolation of the situation,--all that should have frightened a robust woman,--seemed to make no impression upon her who had known life only in its most sheltered and consummately artificial aspects, and who was herself all fire and dew and mist, sublimated spirit, all that was soft and tender and clinging in woman.
 
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