underground shelter
Buried protective structure
An underground shelter is a protective structure built below ground level, designed to shield occupants from danger—whether bombs, tornadoes, nuclear fallout, or other threats.
The term covers everything from backyard storm cellars to elaborate bunkers: The family retreated to their underground shelter when the sirens sounded.
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- basementSubterranean building level
- cellarUnderground storage room
- storm cellarSubterranean severe weather refuge
- hideoutSecret place of refuge
safe house · refuge · tunnel · escape hatch · emergency exit · fallout · concrete · reinforced · survival · panic room · safe room · buried · subterranean · hatch · supplies · canned goods · nuclear · nuclear war
- hideawayshideaway, hideout, hiding place, lair, den
- shelterstent, hut, igloo, burrow, cave
- ancient shelterscave dwelling, cliff dwelling, longhouse, roundhouse, mud hut
- bunkersbunkers, nuclear bunker, concrete bunker, military bunker, emergency bunker
- Fallout Protectionradiation shield, lead shielding, potassium iodide, iodine tablets, dosimeter
- military structuresfort, bunker, foxhole, trench, pillbox
underground shelterrooftop
Building's top exterior surface
penthouse · tower · skyscraper · high-rise · observation deck
underground shelteropen ground
open field · no man's land · battlefield · clearing · open terrain
underground, shelter, under, ground, undergrounds, shelters, sheltered, sheltering, grounded