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hideout

hideout

55 4.0
A secret place where someone stays to avoid being found
  • noun
  • /ˈhaɪˌdaʊt/
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  • He was using this place as a hideout, and now he's back to his life of crime.

One's called True Confessions of a Kid and the other one's called Hideouts for Midgets on the Lam.

Examples

  • The criminals fled to their hideout in the woods to avoid capture.

  • I guess he needed a hideout or something.

  • Yes, I used... I used to drive them both to a secret hideout they had, in the country.

  • You know we cannot let the white eyes see where our hideout is.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Show us the way to your hideout.

  • We'll be doing so here at the hideout for at least the next 48 hours.

    Blog text (13)
  • The hideout was monitored by cameras, that recorded how they came in and out of the house.

  • We had a secret hideout where the far end of the playground met the bushes.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • The Mineola Hotel was a well-known hideout of gangster Al Capone during the Prohibition Era.

    Blog text (32)
  • She found a safe hideout in an abandoned building to escape the storm.

Synonyms

safe house
vshideout
106 4.8

A house where people in danger hide to stay safe

is mainly a secret place used by criminals or outlaws to hide
sanctuary
vshideout
70 4.1

A safe place where people go to escape danger

is mainly a secret shelter for criminals avoiding capture rather than an open refuge
nest
vshideout
  • Literature
69 8.0

A place where criminals hide and plan crimes

is a place to hide or stay secretly rather than an operational base
hiding place
vshideout
57 2.5

A secret place where nobody can find a person or thing

is used especially by criminals or outlaws to avoid being found
hideaway
vshideout
25 5.1

A private place where someone goes to be alone

is mainly used secretly to shelter criminals rather than for solitude
den
vshideout
  • NSFW
6 6.0

A secret place used as a hideout, often by criminals

is a general secret shelter rather than an active criminal base
hidey-hole
vshideout
  • Informal
1 7.5

A small secret place to keep things safe or be alone

is a secret shelter often larger and used for staying hidden by criminals
covert
vshideout
1 7.9

A thick area of bushes where animals hide

is a secret shelter used by people or criminals rather than natural plant cover
bolthole
vshideout
  • UK
1 8.3

A private place to go to relax or hide from others

is a secret place for criminals to stay hidden rather than a temporary escape
mousehole
vshideout
1 7.0

A small narrow space where a person can hide

is a larger secret shelter used to hide people rather than a tiny gap
lurking place
vshideout
9.4

A place where someone hides to wait secretly, often to do something bad

is primarily for staying hidden to avoid discovery rather than lying in wait

Antonyms

88 3.9

Making a secret or hidden thing known to people

An open area in a town or city where people meet and events happen

How Secret

safe house
106 4.8
hideout
55 4.0
hideaway
25 5.1
refuge
179 3.3

Surface Forms

hideout singular
hideouts plural

Morphology

hideout = hide (transparent) = out + hide

A straightforward compound of 'hide' + 'out' meaning a place to hide; the meaning is literal and predictable for learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

The word hideout is built from hide ('to keep from being seen') and out ('away'). So a hideout is literally a place to 'hide away', a secret place where someone stays to avoid being found.