Meaning of "shelter" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SHELTER

Of uncertain origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SHELTER

shelter  [ˈʃɛltə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHELTER

Shelter is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb shelter in English.

WHAT DOES SHELTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shelter

Shelter may refer to: ▪ Shelter, a basic architectural structure or building that provides cover. ▪ "Shelter Object", the codename for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus, the protective building around the immediate site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster ▪ Homeless shelter, a temporary residence for homeless people, sometimes simply referred to as a 'shelter' ▪ Animal shelter, a facility that houses homeless, lost, or abandoned animals; mostly dogs and cats...

Definition of shelter in the English dictionary

The first definition of shelter in the dictionary is something that provides cover or protection, as from weather or danger; place of refuge. Other definition of shelter is the protection afforded by such a cover; refuge. Shelter is also the state of being sheltered.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SHELTER

PRESENT

Present

I shelter

you shelter

he/she/it shelters

we shelter

you shelter

they shelter

Present continuous

I am sheltering

you are sheltering

he/she/it is sheltering

we are sheltering

you are sheltering

they are sheltering

Present perfect

I have sheltered

you have sheltered

he/she/it has sheltered

we have sheltered

you have sheltered

they have sheltered

Present perfect continuous

I have been sheltering

you have been sheltering

he/she/it has been sheltering

we have been sheltering

you have been sheltering

they have been sheltering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sheltered

you sheltered

he/she/it sheltered

we sheltered

you sheltered

they sheltered

Past continuous

I was sheltering

you were sheltering

he/she/it was sheltering

we were sheltering

you were sheltering

they were sheltering

Past perfect

I had sheltered

you had sheltered

he/she/it had sheltered

we had sheltered

you had sheltered

they had sheltered

Past perfect continuous

I had been sheltering

you had been sheltering

he/she/it had been sheltering

we had been sheltering

you had been sheltering

they had been sheltering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will shelter

you will shelter

he/she/it will shelter

we will shelter

you will shelter

they will shelter

Future continuous

I will be sheltering

you will be sheltering

he/she/it will be sheltering

we will be sheltering

you will be sheltering

they will be sheltering

Future perfect

I will have sheltered

you will have sheltered

he/she/it will have sheltered

we will have sheltered

you will have sheltered

they will have sheltered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been sheltering

you will have been sheltering

he/she/it will have been sheltering

we will have been sheltering

you will have been sheltering

they will have been sheltering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would shelter

you would shelter

he/she/it would shelter

we would shelter

you would shelter

they would shelter

Conditional continuous

I would be sheltering

you would be sheltering

he/she/it would be sheltering

we would be sheltering

you would be sheltering

they would be sheltering

Conditional perfect

I would have shelter

you would have shelter

he/she/it would have shelter

we would have shelter

you would have shelter

they would have shelter

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been sheltering

you would have been sheltering

he/she/it would have been sheltering

we would have been sheltering

you would have been sheltering

they would have been sheltering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you shelter
we let´s shelter
you shelter

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to shelter

Past participle

sheltered

Present Participle

sheltering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SHELTER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shelter» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of shelter

asylum · awning · cover · defence · defend · guard · harbour · haven · hide · protect · protection · refuge · retreat · safe haven · safe house · safeguard · safety · sanctuary · save · screen · security · shiel · shield · take cover · take in

TRANSLATION OF SHELTER

Find out the translation of shelter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of shelter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shelter» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 掩蔽处
• Translator English - Spanish: cobijo
• English: shelter
• Translator English - Hindi: आश्रय
• Translator English - Arabic: مَلْجَأ
• Translator English - Russian: убежище
• Translator English - Portuguese: abrigo
• Translator English - Bengali: আশ্রয়
• Translator English - French: abri
• Translator English - Malay: Tempat perlindungan
• Translator English - German: Obdach
• Translator English - Japanese: 避難所
• Translator English - Korean: 대피소
• Translator English - Javanese: Papan perlindungan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: nơi trú ẩn
• Translator English - Tamil: தங்குமிடம்
• Translator English - Marathi: निवारा
• Translator English - Turkish: barınak
• Translator English - Italian: rifugio
• Translator English - Polish: schronienie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: притулок
• Translator English - Romanian: adăpost
• Translator English - Greek: καταφύγιο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: skuiling
• Translator English - Swedish: skydd
• Translator English - Norwegian: ly

10 QUOTES WITH «SHELTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shelter.

1

Honor Blackman

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

2

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

3

Jose Carreras

I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.

4

Ralph Chaplin

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

5

Alicia Coppola

This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don't kill it. Feed it, clothe it and shelter it.' I never knew what that kind of love was. I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me.

6

Bruce Dickinson

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

7

Alice Morse Earle

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

8

Jay Electronica

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

9

Black Elk

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.

10

Robert Fogel

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHELTER»

Discover the use of shelter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shelter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Shelter

When tragic events tear him away from his parents, 15-year-old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live with his estranged uncle, Myron.

Harlan Coben, 2011

Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless

A powerful and inspiring study of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter: The only student-run shelter in the United States.

Scott Seider, 2010

Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff

Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff, Second Edition is the premier reference on shelter medicine.

Lila Miller, Stephen Zawistowski, 2012

Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War

Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War.

David Monteyne, 2011

Shelter

Photographs and simple text describe some of the different kinds of structures that people call home, from houseboats and clay huts to farmhouses and apartment buildings.

Susan Canizares, Daniel Moreton, 1998

Shelter

Having worked as a carpenter and photographer, and as an editor for both the early Whole Earth Catalog and Domebook 2 in the 1960s, Kahn set out in the '70s with a camera and notebook to document building traditions throughout the world as ...

Lloyd Kahn, Jr., 1995

Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and ...

One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life.

Leonard C. Feldman, 2006

One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in?

Kenneth D. Rose, 2004

Shelter: One Man's Journey from Homelessness to Hope

A diary follows the author's descent into homelessness in Tucson, Arizona, describing life in a shelter, his own conflicting emotions about his situation and his stereotypes about the homeless, and his struggle for survival and a shred of ...

Bobby Burns, 1998

How We Use Plants for Shelter

Describes the ways in which human beings use plants in making homes, discussing wood, thatch, straw, bamboo, paint, insulation, curtains, and carpets.

Sally Morgan, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHELTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shelter is used in the context of the following news items.

Fallout Shelter is coming to Android on August 13th

At E3, Bethesda both announced and launched Fallout Shelter, a mobile game where players could manage their own underground vaults in the aftermath of a ... «The Verge, Jul 15»

Facebook Post Credited With Saving Shelter Buddies Set to be …

Shelter dogs Kala and Keira were scheduled to be put to sleep on Monday. “Today is their last day unless we can save them,” Angels Among Us Pet Rescue ... «KTLA, Jul 15»

Astronauts take emergency shelter after junk threatens space station

It took the astronauts more than an hour to get their 250-mile-high home back to normal operation, following the “shelter in place,” as Nasa calls it. Research ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Shelters to end euthanasia

MISSION VALLEY — A coalition that represents most shelters in San Diego County announced Wednesday that it no longer will euthanize animals because of a ... «U-T San Diego, Jul 15»

Fallout Shelter Review

Bethesda's Fallout Shelter for iPhone and iPad gives us the opportunity to try our hand at doing better, to (hopefully) provide a better life for the citizens of the ... «IGN, Jun 15»

A sleeper hit from E3: Bethesda's Fallout Shelter

Bethesda Softworks released its first mobile game, a continuation of its blockbuster Fallout series, earlier this month. The app, called Fallout Shelter, was ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»

Cat wins shelter's Hero Dog award for saving kid from canine

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time, a Los Angeles shelter's Hero Dog award has gone to a cat. In May 2014, Tara the cat fought off a dog that attacked her ... «WTOP, Jun 15»

I Can't Stop Playing Fallout Shelter

Last night before hitting the sack I set two alarms. One so that I could wake up this morning and come to work, like I always do. Another, so I could wake up at ... «Kotaku, Jun 15»

Suspected food poisoning sends more than 50 Utah shelter clients …

Families in our shelter have access to a kitchen facility and may prepare their own food if they like," she said. "Most clients eat their meals at various agencies ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Jun 15»

'Shelter in place' order lifted in Tufts stabbings

A shelter-in-place order has been lifted at Tufts University in Medford this morning after two people were apparently stabbed "near the campus," the school ... «Boston Herald, May 15»