safe room

See also: saferoom

English

Alternative forms

• saferoom

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.

   Synonym: panic room

   • 2021 May 14, Isabel Kershner, “Gaza Rocket Finds a Rare Gap in Israeli Armor, and a Boy Is Killed”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: turvahuone
• German: Panikraum m
• Norwegian: sikkerhetsrom
• Swedish: säkerhetsrum n, panikrum (sv) n

Further reading

• safe room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia