Noun: safe
Sample Sentences
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The small-timers, as he put it, kept their currency in their homes, in safes, in false ceilings, under beds. When necessary, our tax people know where to look. The big-timers, however, use Swiss banks. [1992, Shashi Tharoor, Show Business: A Novel, page 144:]
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Condoms ARE available, on the underground market, at the outrageous price of ten dollars a piece! Now, I do not mind paying ten bucks for a good piece, as well as some peace of mind, but even the mere possession of these 'safes' is a disciplinary offense! [1989 August 19, Gerard L. Ready, “Possessing A Condom Is An Offense!”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 4:]
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She'd better have an arsenal of Trojans in her purse just in case he wasn't carrying a safe in his back pocket. [1999, Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, Delta, published 1999, →ISBN, page 328:]
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The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29:]
Nouns inflected like safe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salawos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
2. Displaced Old English sicor (“secure, sure”). See: Middle English Nouns '
sauf', Latin Nouns '
salvus', Old English Nouns '
sicor'.
Verbs referencing "safe"
German Nouns
Safe, Romanian Nouns
seif, Russian Nouns
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