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saferoom

saferoom is the alternative form of safe room.

Meaning of safe room

Noun

safe room (plural safe rooms)

  1. A fortified room serving as a safe hiding place for the inhabitants of a building in the event of a break-in or emergency.
    • In the early 1990s, after Israel came under attack by Scud missiles from Iraq, all newly built homes were required to be constructed with a safe room made from reinforced concrete.2021 May 14, Isabel Kershner, “Gaza Rocket Finds a Rare Gap in Israeli Armor, and a Boy Is Killed”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    panic room

Forms of saferoom

pluralsaferooms

Questions about saferoom

What is saferoom the alternative form of?
Saferoom is the alternative form of safe room.

Words near saferoom in the dictionary

  1. safens
  2. safer
  3. safer sex
  4. safer space
  5. safer-sex
  6. saferoom
  7. saferooms
  8. safes
  9. safest
  10. safetie
  11. safetied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saferoom (page history and authors); safe room (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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