refugenoun/ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒ/

• 1

  A state of safety, protection or shelter.

  • Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge.
• 2

  A place providing safety, protection or shelter.

  • One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
• 3

  Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.

  • Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.
• 4

  An expedient to secure protection or defence.

  • Their latest refuge / Was to send him.
  • This is occaſioned by this, that too too often the Teaching of a Grammar School is the ordinary Refuge that deſperate Perſons as to any other Employment in good Learning betake themſelves to; whilſt but a few know themſelves ſuited with intellectual and moral Abilities, and fewer have that Encouragement, when they undertake it, their Pains deſerve.
• 5

  A refuge island.

• 6

  BuddhismlifestylereligionA kind of daily prayer or recitation.

refugeverb/ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒ/

• 1

  To return to a place of shelter.

  • Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.
• 2

  obsoleteTo shelter; to protect.