Shelter
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Shelter refers to something that covers or provides protection, including the following:
- Protection against the weather
- A house
- A mountain shelter
- A place to stand or sit when waiting at public transport stops, such as:
- Places of refuge
- A women's shelter for abused women
- A homeless shelter for vagrants
- An animal shelter, which usually houses stray pets
- War related
- Groups or organisations
- Shelter Don Bosco, an organization working for Street Children in Mumbai, India
- Shelter (charity), a British charity campaigning to end homelessness and bad housing
- Shelter (band), a hardcore Hare Krishna band
- Transportation
- Shelter (automobile), a Dutch experimental city car of the 1950s