as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others the novelist has a little hideaway in the country where he goes whenever he wants to do some serious writing

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Recent Examples of hideaway The hideaway has a half bathroom, television, refrigerators and pool table. David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 12 Apr. 2025 The primary bedroom suite offers a treetop hideaway, complete with its own private deck — there are three bedrooms and four full baths in all, across close to 2,600 square feet. Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2025 There, the collective created a domestic hideaway in defiance of the consumer mecca that the mall represented, documented the project, and used the space undetected for years. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2025 For starters, cats love hiding places, and cardboard boxes make great hideaways, especially the bigger ones. Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hideaway
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Noun
  • Based on a true story, a father and son in a warzone hospital face life-or-death choices as their hideout becomes increasingly compromised.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
  • When Joe secures an isolated, off-the-grid lake house as their temporary hideout, Bronte realizes time is running out.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor is an evil mad scientist with plans for destruction and domination, armed with Kryptonite and a subterranean lair shared.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Uth Duna, an eel-like leviathan, hits like a truck and moves erratically within its watery lair.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Hideaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hideaway. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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