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- 1. an enclosed space or structure designed to protect people from explosive weapons such as bombs or missiles: "escalating violence forced much of the country into bomb shelters"
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Finnish civilians enter a bomb shelter in Helsinki as air-raid sirens start, with Soviet bombers inbound during the Winter War. A bomb shelter is a structure designed to provide protection against the effects of a bomb.
Bomb shelter definition: a room or area, usually underground, especially reinforced against the effects of bombs, used as a shelter during an air raid.. See examples of BOMB SHELTER used in a sentence.
An enclosed space or structure, typically underground, designed to protect occupants from explosive weapons, esp. bombs dropped by aircraft. Also in later use: a structure of this type designed to protect against radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion; = fallout shelter n. 1915.
bomb shelter. A shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
29 July 2003. For domestic use, there were three main types of air-raid shelters: Anderson shelters. This shelter was named after John Anderson (later Sir John), the then Home Secretary, who...
a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids. synonyms: air-raid shelter, bombproof. see more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English bomb shelter ˈbomb ˌshelter noun [countable] PMD a room or building that is built to protect people from bomb attacks
