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sheltery

sheltery adjective: giving shelter, acting as a shelter.

Adjective

sheltery (comparative more sheltery, superlative most sheltery)

  1. Giving shelter, acting as a shelter.
    • They spend their winters under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary.1866, Gilbert White, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of sheltery

comparativemore sheltery
superlativemost sheltery

Origin of sheltery

From shelter + -y.

Questions about sheltery

What does sheltery mean?
Sheltery means giving shelter, acting as a shelter.
What part of speech is sheltery?
Sheltery is an adjective.

Words near sheltery in the dictionary

  1. shelters
  2. shelters in place
  3. shelters-in-place
  4. sheltersome
  5. shelterwood
  6. sheltery
  7. sheltie
  8. shelties
  9. Shelton
  10. Shelton and Hardwick
  11. Sheltonian

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