bomb shelter

noun

1. a room or area, usually underground, especially reinforced against the effects of bombs, used as a shelter during an air raid.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bomb shelter¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

The bomb shelter is still here, now home to a washing machine and a fridge.

From Time

Her younger sister Judy would be up like a shot, bounding down the stairs to the bomb shelter.

From Time

Every night for about a month after he would return in dreams to the moment he emerged in shock from a basement bomb shelter at the primary care facility in the northwest Syrian city of Jarjanaz.

From Time

He and his colleagues rushed the infants to a basement bomb shelter.

From Time

My old building has no bomb shelter, so we sat under the stairs.

From The Daily Beast

Then we thought a few rockets a year would be unpleasant but manageable—we have a bona fide bomb shelter off of our kitchen.

From The Daily Beast

Or make the blighters hide in some bomb shelter where we can't find them!

From Project Gutenberg