refuge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A safe place where you are protected from danger or trouble.

   They found refuge from the storm in an old barn.

2. 2
   noun

   Something or someone you turn to for comfort or safety.

   For many years, music was her refuge during hard times.

From Middle English refuge, from Old French refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugiō (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.

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