SHELTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheltered mean? 

• SHELTERED (adjective)
  The adjective SHELTERED has 1 sense:

1. protected from danger or bad weather

  Familiarity information: SHELTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHELTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Protected from danger or bad weather

Context example:

a sheltered harbor

Similar:

invulnerable (immune to attack; impregnable)

 Context examples 

The walk being here less sheltered than on the other side, allowed them to see him before they met.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We are not going to die. We shall land on that island, and we shall be snug and sheltered before the day is done.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All his life he had tended and operated on the soft humans of civilisation, who lived sheltered lives and had descended out of many sheltered generations.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I advanced my head with precaution, desirous to ascertain if any bedroom window-blinds were yet drawn up: battlements, windows, long front—all from this sheltered station were at my command.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I should have gone to bed with a sore heart indeed under any other roof but that which sheltered little Em'ly's head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ten millions of you slaves are not properly sheltered nor properly fed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Hatchlings listen to the sounds of coastal ecosystems to guide them to sheltered waters.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

All day the little band of Englishmen lay in the sheltered gorge, looking down upon the vast host of their unconscious enemies.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a northerly breeze it lies placid and sheltered, inviting the storm-tossed craft to tack into it for rest and protection.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the invader was triumphant he found but little, for whatever there was had been sheltered in the friendly soil.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)