refuge
a safe place
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,899 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,677 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a safe place also: safety He ran to safety
- something or someone turned to for assistance or security also: recourse, resort his only recourse was the policetook refuge in lying
- a shelter from danger or hardship also: sanctuary, asylum
- act of turning to for assistance also: recourse, resort have recourse to the courtsan appeal to his uncle was his last resort
refuge in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The more grave, and the religiously-disposed, found refuge in the colonies of New-England.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish · James Fenimore Cooper · Chapter 1
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As soon as they reached home, Mlle. Gilberte took refuge in her own room.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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With Age, with Cares, with Maladies oppress'd, He seeks the Refuge of Monastic Rest.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two · Samuel Johnson · Chapter 1
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Presently the rain began to descend in torrents, and compelled them to take refuge beneath a large beech-tree.
Windsor Castle · William Harrison Ainsworth · Chapter 1
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Taking refuge in a cottage, living on the sale of the few jewels she possessed, she was for some weeks almost happy.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1