different between retirement vs shelter

English

Etymology

From French retirement, from retirer (“withdraw, retire”); corresponding to retire +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???ta??(?).m?nt/

Noun

retirement (countable and uncountable, plural retirements)

1. An act of retiring; withdrawal. [from 16th c.]
2. (uncountable) The state of being retired; seclusion. [from 17th c.]
3. (now rare) A place of seclusion or privacy; a retreat. [from 17th c.]
   • 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, Oxford 2009, p. 12:

     When her mother frowned, and her friend looked cool, she would steal to this retirement, where human foot seldom trod […] .

4. The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]
5. The act of leaving one's career or employment permanently. [from 17th c.]
   • 2012, Chelsea 6-0 Wolves [1]

     The Chelsea captain was a virtual spectator as he was treated to his side's biggest win for almost two years as Stamford Bridge serenaded him with chants of "there's only one England captain," some 48 hours after he announced his retirement from international football.

Synonyms

• (act of retiring): departure, withdrawment
• (state of being retired): privacy, seclusion, solitude
• (place of seclusion or privacy): retreat

Derived terms

Related terms

• retire

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English s?ildtruma, s?yldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from s?yld, s?ield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Noun

shelter (plural shelters)

1. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
2. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

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Verb

shelter (third-person singular simple present shelters, present participle sheltering, simple past and past participle sheltered)

1. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
   • 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton

     Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

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

2. (intransitive) To take cover.

   During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

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Anagrams

• Ehlerts, Hertels, Shetler, helters, three Ls