refuge
/ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic."
Etymology
From Middle English refuge, from Old French refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugiō (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.