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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.6 / 5 votes

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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How to use refuge in a sentence?

1. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

2. The State Department:

   Operation Allies Refuge. but here's the rub, and I acknowledge this, there is a difference between moving expeditiously to get this program off the ground, off the dead stall that it was in, and get it moving.... there's a difference between that and a full-on evacuation.

3. Norman Douglas:

   There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

4. Jeff Kingston:

   Apparently they take no inspiration from Queen Elizabeth... and instead take refuge behind fatuous patriarchal justifications for not doing so, the law will change only if it absolutely must.

5. Ammon Bundy:

   To those remaining at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down ... Please go home.