Shelter vs Cabana - What's the difference?
shelter | cabana |
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
As nouns the difference between shelter and cabana
is that shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something while cabana is a cabin or hut for relaxing.As a verb shelter
is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.shelter
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* bus shelterVerb
(en verb)- Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
- You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .
- During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.
