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Shelter
Shelter can refer to several things:
- A place that protects, to a larger or smaller extent, against some or all of the following:
- Examples:
- A place in which people live, a house.
- A place of refuge, such as a women's shelter for abused women or a homeless shelter for vagrants.
- A shortened name for an animal shelter, which usually houses stray pets.
- A place to stand or sit when:
- waiting at public transport stops for a bus (bus shelter), tram (tram stop), train (shelter on a railway platform), taxi (taxi stand), ferryboat / water taxi, etc.
- having a cigarette.
- A mountain shelter
- Shelter (charity) is a British charity campaigning to end homelessness and bad housing.
- Shelter (band) is a hardcore Hare Krishna band.
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