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Hideaway vs Hideout - What's the difference?

hideaway | hideout |

As nouns the difference between hideaway and hideout

is that hideaway is a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people while hideout is a place to hide.

As an adjective hideaway

is capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.

hideaway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a hiding place, somewhere you can go to get away from other people
    • This weekend, let's find some romantic hideaway on the coast.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.
  • * 1980 , Making of America Project, House Beautiful: Volume 122
    • Furnishings by Stanley Furniture Co. include a trundle bed with hideaway mattress that provides space for two overnight guests.
  • * 2006 , Dr Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw (page 53)
    • Thomas Jefferson, who held the first United States patent on a hideaway bed, devised a system of elevating and securing the bed to the ceiling.

    hideout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place to hide
    • They'll never find us in this makeshift hideout we've got in the woods

    See also

    * bunker * hideaway