noun
- shelter or protection from danger, difficulty, etc.
- a person or thing that gives shelter, help, or comfort
- a place of safety; shelter; safe retreat
- an expediency or shift; action taken to escape trouble or difficulty
Origin:
OFr < L refugium < refugere, to retreat < re-, back + fugere, to flee: see fugitive
transitive verb refuged, refuging
Archaic to give refuge to