SHELTER


'Shelter' refers to a typically basic structure or building that covers or provides protection, including the following:
;Protection from the weather

House

★ Mountain shelter or hut

Shack

Public transport stops, such as:


Bus shelter


Tram stop


Railway platform


Taxi stand
;Places of refuge

Animal shelter for stray pets

Emergency shelter from natural disasters, etc.

Homeless shelter for vagrants

Women's shelter for abused women
;War related

Air-raid shelter

Fallout shelter

Blast shelter

Refugee shelter

Tent city
;Groups or organisations

Shelter (band), an American krishnacore band

Shelter Centre, an NGO supporting humanitarian shelter

Shelter (charity), a British charity campaigning to end homelessness and bad housing

Shelter Don Bosco, an organization working for Street Children in Mumbai, India

Shelter Insurance, a US mutual insurance company

Shelter Records, a record label
;Transportation

Shelter (automobile), a Dutch experimental city car of the 1950s..
;Geological

Rock shelter
;Media

★ ''Shelter (book)'', a novel by Susan Palwick published by Tor in 2007.

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