shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm.
2.
a place of shelter, protection, or safety.
3.
anything to which one has recourse for aid, relief, or escape.
verb (used with object)
4.
Archaic.to afford refuge to.
verb (used without object)
5.
Archaic.to take refuge.
Origin: 1350–1400;Middle English < Middle French < Latinrefugium, equivalent to refug(ere) to turn and flee, run away (re-re- + fugere to flee; see fugitive) + -ium-ium
late 14c., from O.Fr. refuge, from L. refugium "a taking refuge, place to flee back to," from re- "back" + fugere "to flee" (see fugitive) + -ium "place for."