bomb shelter
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3.4
- noun
- /bɑm ˈʃɛltər/
:
refugio antiaéreo
- During the air raid, families quickly gathered in the bomb shelter to stay safe.
- build bomb shelters
- bomb shelter in the basement
- bomb shelter in the backyard
It's like if if a nuclear bomb was flying our way, whose bomb shelter would you rather go in?
- It's like if if a nuclear bomb was flying our way, whose bomb shelter would you rather go in?
- Maybe it would help them at the margins build slightly better bomb shelters.
- We've got bomb shelters are now opening in the northwest portions of Israel.
- I can't pretend scared to think about understand that I, yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not building my bomb shelter yet.
Examples
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Still whistling, Randy descends some metal stairs and enters a vast bomb shelter (canned foods, etc.).
Fiction book (2001) -
Israeli children play games at a bomb shelter on Nov. 14 in Netivot, Israel.
Blog text (2) -
You go into the bomb shelter and there is no all clear.
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So you got a job in a bomb shelter.
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When I was a young bay, I was in a bomb shelter with my parents.
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Jamie says this building has an old bomb shelter.
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Local residents were instructed to stay within 15 seconds of bomb shelters in case of additional attacks.
Blog text (20) -
It was an old bomb shelter that was refurbished after the war.
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More than 1 million Israelis had to sleep in bomb shelters because of the Gaza conflict.
Blog text (33) -
Over one million Israelis lived in bomb shelters, and about 300,000 temporarily left their homes and sought refuge in the south.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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1.0
A place that protects people from danger or bad weather
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5.3
A room underground that protects people from radioactive dust after a nuclear blast
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4.4
A strong place, often underground, that protects people from bombs
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3.9
A building or wall built to protect a place from attack
A strong underground shelter where people stay to protect from bombs
A very strong room or building that protects people from bomb explosions
A man-made shelter that protects people from bad weather or attack
Antonyms
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'shelter' denotes a place of protection and 'bomb' specifies the threat it protects against, so the compound denotes a protective structure for bomb attacks. This noun+noun purpose relation is common cross-linguistically and easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The noun bomb shelter comes from a simple, very literal idea: a strong shelter built to protect people from falling bombs during an 'air raid'. People went inside to be 'safe', so the term now means a place made to keep people protected during bombing attacks.