safe house

noun

: a place where one may engage in secret activities or take refuge

Examples of safe house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

More probably it will have been assembled by a few people, perhaps in the guise of immigrants, in that safe house with a view of lower Manhattan. — Robert Stone, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

At Redemption House of the Bay Area, the two co-founders are working toward opening a safe house - a residential program with wraparound services. — Sharon Chin, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

The Dutch police assigned round-the-clock bodyguards to protect Tahmasbi and began shuttling him through a series of safe houses. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

In some cases, migrants headed south to the United States stay in the same Montreal safe houses as people who have snuck into Canada and are waiting out the 14-day refugee period. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for safe house

• boardinghouse
• charterhouse
• clearinghouse
• coffeehouse
• customhouse
• firehouse
• meetinghouse
• motherhouse
• packinghouse
• pilothouse
• powerhouse
• slaughterhouse