Synonyms for refuge
ˈrɛf yudʒrefuge

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1. refugenoun

   Synonyms:
   sanctuary, zoar, haven

2. refugenoun

   A state of safety, protection or shelter

   Synonyms:
   zoar, sanctuary, haven

3. refugenoun

   A place providing safety, protection or shelter

   Synonyms:
   zoar, sanctuary, haven

4. refugenoun

   Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort

   Synonyms:
   sanctuary, haven, zoar

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1. refuge

   Synonyms:
   protection, shelter, harbor, asylum, retreat, covert, hospitality, sanctuary, hiding-place

   Antonyms:
   exposure, inhospitableness, peril, pitfall, snare, scylla, charybdis

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1. safety, refugenoun

   a safe place

   "He ran to safety"

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, condom, sanctuary, safety, safe, resort, guard, asylum, recourse, rubber, base hit, safety device

2. recourse, refuge, resortnoun

   something or someone turned to for assistance or security

   "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"

   Synonyms:
   repair, sanctuary, resort, stamping ground, asylum, holiday resort, hangout, recourse, resort hotel, haunt, safety

3. refuge, sanctuary, asylumnoun

   a shelter from danger or hardship

   Synonyms:
   insane asylum, chancel, sanctuary, resort, mental institution, asylum, mental hospital, bema, institution, recourse, psychiatric hospital, mental home, safety

4. recourse, resort, refugenoun

   act of turning to for assistance

   "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"

   Synonyms:
   repair, sanctuary, resort, stamping ground, asylum, hangout, holiday resort, resort hotel, recourse, haunt, safety

Matched Categories

1. • Aid
   • Area
   • Resource
   • Shelter

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1. refugenoun

   Synonyms:
   shelter, safety, security, protection

2. refugenoun

   Synonyms:
   asylum, retreat, sanctuary, harbor, place of safety, place of refuge

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1. refugenoun

   Synonyms:
   stronghold, asylum, retreat, covert, shelter, protection, security, guard, expedient, device, shift, resort

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1. List of paraphrases for "refuge":

   sanctuary, haven, shelter, asylum, refugium, refugio, refugia, refugee, resort

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1. Whenever Langston:

   In that bad neighborhood, I had rivals, rival neighborhoods. Kids from each neighborhood … don't like the people from over there, refuge was helping bring kids from other neighborhoods together and let us politic together and have different perspectives.

2. Bryant McGill:

   Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

3. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

4. Dan Harris:

   The one place kids go for refuge is their bed, parents have to sometimes choose between having food on their table or heating their homes or a having a bed. So we make it easier for children to have a bed and we give the child something of their own.

5. Stendhal:

   Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.