REFUGE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of refuge in English

(Definition of refuge from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of refuge from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of refuge

refuge
Seeking refuge in the past may be understood as their means of not being overwhelmed by their anxieties.
They see, in these miserable paupers in search of a refuge, their future inner enemies, the sign of a siege to come.
Temperatures in artificial refuges were intermediate between these extremes.
Microbial life can thus exist in isolated geothermal refuges despite long-term subfreezing surface conditions.
Secondly, the otherwise smooth mudflat surface will have greater heterogeneity, with surface-stranded cockles providing refuges and attachment substrate for other organisms.
The eastern, southern, and western parts of the island should not be visited and should serve as refuge areas.
He argues that this conceptualisation builds a refuge of meaning within the bourgeois romantic critique of industrial society.
We compared agouti movement with the locations of refuges and food trees, and the results suggest that the agoutis are central-place foragers.
Natural resource-based activities formed the main refuge for poorer households that do not find niches in trading and employment.
The second was a stunted radical-democratic impulse which, being denied a more conventional expression, sought refuge in increasing extremities of nationalist belief.
The ideology of separate spheres breaks down when the home can no longer symbolize a refuge from the public world.
It inhabited a peripheral zone where all kinds of outlaws ordinarily sought refuge, but into which state officials hated to venture.
His first move was to sidestep dependency criticism and take refuge behind the shield of political history.
Both forest types contained at least some areas of high quality habitat, and populations contracted into these refuge areas during the drought.
He sought refuge in the desert, where police jurisdiction was weaker and his bedouin allies more numerous than in the cities.
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Translations of refuge

in Chinese (Traditional)
避難(所), 庇護(所), 慰藉…
in Chinese (Simplified)
避难(所), 庇护(所), 慰藉…
in Spanish
refugio, albergue, refugio [masculine…
in Portuguese
refúgio, refúgio [masculine]…
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आसरा, आश्रयगृह…
避難所, 保護施設, 避難所(ひなんじょ)…
sığınma, korunma, koruma…
refuge [masculine], refuge…
refugi, alberg…
schuilplaats…
(தரும் இடம்) ஆபத்து, பிரச்சனை, மகிழ்ச்சியின்மை போன்றவற்றிலிருந்து பாதுகாப்பு அல்லது தங்குமிடம்.…
(खतरे, मुसीबत, या दुख आदि से) आश्रय…
સુરક્ષિત આશ્રય…
tilflugt…
skydd, fristad…
perlindungan…
die Zuflucht…
beskyttelse [masculine], tilfluktssted [neuter], tilflukt [masculine]…
پناہ, سہارا…
притулок, сховище…
убежище, приют…
ఆశ్రయం / ప్రమాదం, ఇబ్బంది, దురదృష్టం మొదలైన వాటి నుండి రక్షణ లేదా ఆశ్రయం ఇచ్చే ప్రదేశం…
مَلْجَأ…
আশ্রয়…
úkryt, útočiště…
perlindungan…
ที่หลบภัย…
nơi ẩn náu…
schronienie, schronisko…
피난처…
rifugio…
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