Solitude vs Shelter - What's the difference?
solitude | shelter | Related terms |
Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
A lonely or deserted place.
* 1813 , , Canto 2, stanza 20:
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
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To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
* Dryden
* Southey
To take cover.
Solitude is a related term of shelter.
As nouns the difference between solitude and shelter
is that solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself 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.solitude
English
Noun
(wikipedia solitude)- Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.
Synonyms
* alonenessAntonyms
* intimacyDerived terms
* two solitudesSee also
* loneliness ----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.