Synonyms of shelters

shelters 1 of 2

noun

plural of shelter

as in refuges

something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger

the sudden fierce storm forced us to run to the nearest shelter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refuges
• sanctuaries
• retreats
• havens
• residences
• asylums
• lodgings
• bolt-holes
• harbors
• harborages
• oases
• sanctums
• hideouts
• abodes
• dwellings
• roofs
• ports
• anchorages
• houses
• housings
• screens
• quarters
• habitations
• domiciles
• moorings
• fortresses
• hideaways
• forts
• strongholds
• dens
• places
• cloisters
• rests
• sheds
• closets
• windbreaks
• castles
• lairs
• hermitages
• pads
• diggings
• redoubts
• palisades
• covers
• coverts
• lean-tos
• lodgments
• lees

shelters

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of shelter

1

as in protects

to be or provide a shelter for

the abandoned barn shelters a colony of stray cats

Synonyms & Similar Words

• protects
• houses
• refuges
• harbors
• shields
• defends
• safeguards
• secures
• quarters
• wards
• shadows
• screens
• covers
• places
• domiciles
• shades

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposes

2

as in houses

to provide with living quarters or shelter

sheltered the troops in tents until permanent barracks could be built

Synonyms & Similar Words

• houses
• camps
• roofs
• lodges
• rooms
• accommodates
• boards
• chambers
• quarters
• homes
• domiciles
• harbors
• bunks
• bivouacs
• billets
• encamps
• bestows
• takes in
• sheds
• stables
• tents
• barracks
• roosts
• beds (down)
• secures
• puts up
• ensconces

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejects
• evicts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shelters

Noun

If able to scale, this technique could be used to build shelters and other structures for future long-term human missions to the planet. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

One of the shelters available during recent alerts is a modernised facility beneath the premises of municipal bus operator MPK in Lublin. — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026

The survey polled 855 people in Gaza face-to-face in the respondents’ homes, shelters, or camps, and 800 in the West Bank face-to-face in the respondents’ homes. — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026

On homelessness, Bera supported moving people into congregate shelters that provide mental health care, social work and addiction treatment. — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Children and staff at the school were in shelters when the drone hit, Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said, and its warhead didn’t explode. — Susie Blann, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

But most of about 100 people who sought refuge from potential flooding in chile-growing Dona Ana County were headed home from shelters Wednesday, county officials said. — Mead Gruver, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

The Playtime Project has spent years helping families in shelters. — Akira Kyles, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026

City staff are proposing a second bond of the same size to pay for building, preserving and rehabilitating more apartments, single-family homes and shelters. — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026

Verb

Made up of vast mangrove forests, brackish marshlands, and tons of tiny islands, the refuge shelters a wide variety of animals, including American alligators and crocodiles, Florida panthers, manatees, river otters, bottle-nosed dolphins, and more than 200 species of migratory birds. — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026

The film centers on Cheng Jun, a Chinese international student working the night shift at a 24-hour convenience store who forms an unlikely bond with a homeless elderly woman who shelters there each night. — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 15 June 2026

Rain pushes the weeds higher, then shelters them on turf too soft for the machines meant to clip them. — CBS News, 1 May 2026

Remove firewood, bricks, boards, tarps, or vegetation up against the house, which shelters insects that provide food for spiders, says Gray. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026

Though Brigitta despises him, Maria shelters him. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026

The roof of his celebrated Restaurant Mestizo, also in the capital city, is supported by huge load-bearing stones from a local quarry; his Pite House, a residence in nearby Papudo, sits nestled on a cliffside that shelters it from prevailing winds. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026

This slime shelters symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria. — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026

The organization shelters about 70 dogs and 50 cats, many injured or left without owners by the war. — Tavleen Tarrant, NBC news, 28 Dec. 2025