fallout shelter

See also: fall-out shelter

English

Alternative forms

• fall-out shelter

Noun

fallout shelter (plural fallout shelters)

1. A thick-walled building, usually under the ground, built so that people can keep away from dust after a nuclear explosion.

Translations

building

• Catalan: refugi antiatòmic m
• Czech: protiatomový kryt m
• Finnish: väestönsuoja (fi) (not specific to nuclear fallout), ydinpommisuoja
• French: abri anti-atomique m
• Hungarian: atombunker
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: schron przeciwatomowy m
• Portuguese: abrigo anti-atômico, refúgio nuclear
• Russian: противорадиационное убе́жище (protivoradiacionnoje ubéžišče)