shelter

1. 1.

   provide shelter for

   “After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people”

   Broadersupply

   Narrowerhousekennelstablestallharbor
2. 2.

   invest (money) so that it is not taxable

   Broaderinvest

Other forms of shelter

plural

shelters·

past tense

shelterred·

present participle

shelterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shelter

What does shelter mean?

shelter means "a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shelter?

shelter has 2 syllables: shel-ter. The stress falls on "shel". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛltɚ/.

What is another word for shelter?

Close synonyms include protection, tax shelter. 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 shelter a common word?

shelter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.