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# shelter

«shelter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place that keeps you safe from rain, cold, sun or danger** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (shelter, shelters, sheltered, sheltering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shelter is a place that keeps you safe from rain, cold, sun or danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#m1)

2) An animal shelter looks after lost or unwanted pets until they get new homes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#m2)

3) A shelter is also a place where people without a home can sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#m3)

4) To shelter is to stay somewhere safe, or to keep someone safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Science and safety: people and animals need shelter, food and water; shelter from a storm; a bus shelter. In maths: animals in a shelter counted, adopted or brought in — adopted leave (subtract), new ones arrive (add). Stories: building a shelter in the woods.

### examples

- The animal shelter has 24 dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x1)
- 7 dogs were adopted from the shelter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x2)
- The shelter got 5 new cats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x3)
- How many animals are in the shelter now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x4)
- We waited in the bus shelter until the rain stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x5)
- The scouts built a shelter from branches and leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x6)
- During a storm, shelter inside a strong building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x7)
- Sheep shelter behind the hedge from the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x8)
- At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/#x9)

### note

Countable noun and regular verb. Animals adopted leave (subtract), new ones arrive (add). Trap: none. «Shelter from» the rain; «take shelter».

### In the corpora

- [Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/7/)
- [Brown rats live wherever people live; they eat our waste and shelter in drains, sewers and buildings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/6/)
- [Camera traps film them walking down empty streets, and wild Przewalski's horses shelter in old barns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/3/)
- ["Surrendered" means a pet was given up to an animal shelter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/15/)
- [A tall lone tree is a dangerous place to shelter, because lightning often strikes tall objects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shelter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shelter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.