Lair vs Shelter - What's the difference?

Lair is a related term of shelter.

As nouns the difference between lair and shelter

is that lair is mare (female horse) or lair can be while shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

As a verb shelter is

to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

lair

English

Noun

(en noun)

A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.

(figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair . Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"

Synonyms

* (of an animal''): burrow (''of some smaller mammals''), den (''of a lion or tiger ) * (of a criminal ): den, hide-out

Verb

(en verb)

(Scotland) To mire.

(Scotland) To become mired.

Anagrams

* * * * * * ----

shelter

English

Noun

(en noun)

A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}

An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

* bus shelter

Verb

(en verb)

To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

* Dryden

Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

* Southey

You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .

To take cover.

During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.