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An example use of shelter in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… and you know the shortage of shelter we …”
Shelter is a place of safety from the weather or from danger.
the word shelter occurs in english on average 18.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.