bomb shelter

1. 1.

   a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids

   Synonymsair-raid shelterbombproof

   Broaderchamber

Questions about bomb shelter

What does bomb shelter mean?

bomb shelter means "a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids".

What is another word for bomb shelter?

Close synonyms include air-raid shelter, bombproof. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bomb shelter a common word?

bomb shelter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.