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.

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Simplified etymology

Refuge, recorded in late Middle English, ultimately belongs to the word family of Latin fugere “to flee.” Its history is shared with fugitive and, later, refugee.

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

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