safe

Meaning

1. Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
2. Free from risk.
3. Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
4. When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
5. In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
6. Properly secured.
7. Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
8. (slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
9. (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
10. Reliable; trusty.
11. Cautious.
12. Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.

secure

sure

strong box

store-room

without risk

not dangerous

deedbox

in good health

safe-deposit vault

provider of funds

nothing to be done

doing well

free from accident

contraceptive device

all-right

meat-safe

free from danger

undecaying

safety-deposit box

unharm

without any hurt

riskfree

pie safe

trouble-proof

steel box

safe vault

iron cash case

trouble proof

non-hazardous

without risk of loss

bank vault

cock-sure

out of danger

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/seɪf/

From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salwos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”). Displaced native Old English sicor (secure, sure).

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