Definition for Protection:

• defense against financial failure; " his pension gave him security in his old age"; " insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness"

Synonyms for Protection:

• n.

  •
  • benefit,
  • contributory,
  • camouflage,
  • actuary,
  • adjuster,
  • carrier,
  • comprehensive,
  • actuarial,
  • broker,
  • collision damage waiver.
  •
  • covert.
  •advantage (noun)
  • favor,
  • precedence,
  • comfort,
  • avail,
  • aid,
  • good,
  • supremacy,
  • prestige,
  • profit,
  • interest,
  • edge,
  • hold,
  • prevalence,
  • break,
  • convenience,
  • influence,
  • power,
  • blessing,
  • gratification,
  • superiority,
  • support,
  • choice,
  • leeway,
  • utility,
  • improvement,
  • ascendancy,
  • leverage,
  • assistance,
  • mastery,
  • authority,
  • luck,
  • help,
  • dominance,
  • upper hand,
  • Resources,
  • sanction,
  • odds,
  • starting,
  • return,
  • eminence,
  • recognition,
  • boon,
  • position,
  • asset,
  • preference,
  • gain.
  •aegis (noun)
  • aegis.
  •anchor (noun)
  • ballast,
  • fastener,
  • hook,
  • foothold,
  • staff,
  • grip,
  • mooring,
  • stay,
  • pillar,
  • bower,
  • mainstay.
  •armament(s) (noun)
  • ordnance,
  • ammunition,
  • material,
  • materiel,
  • hardware,
  • arms.
  •armor (noun)
  • plate,
  • mail,
  • sheath.
  •auspices (noun)
  • auspices.
  •awning (noun)
  • marquee,
  • covering,
  • shade.
  •bastion (noun)
  • fortress,
  • parapet,
  • prop,
  • stronghold,
  • citadel,
  • breastworks,
  • breastwork,
  • tower of strength.
  •birth control (noun)
  • condom.
  •blackmail (noun)
  • payoff,
  • ransom,
  • hush money,
  • slush fund,
  • Milking,
  • tribute,
  • exaction.
  •bosom (noun)
  • bosom.
  •bribe (noun)
  • graft,
  • lagniappe,
  • compensation,
  • contract,
  • sweetener,
  • gratuity,
  • enticement,
  • kickback,
  • Sweeteners,
  • gravy,
  • present,
  • feedbags,
  • perquisite,
  • corrupting gift,
  • lure,
  • price,
  • corrupt money,
  • reward,
  • goody,
  • sweetening,
  • fringe benefit,
  • influence peddling,
  • grease,
  • buyoff,
  • remuneration,
  • gift,
  • take,
  • sop,
  • payola,
  • bait,
  • allurement,
  • incentive,
  • inducement,
  • feedbag.
  •bulwark (noun)
  • fort,
  • outworks,
  • partition,
  • buttress,
  • embankment,
  • redoubt,
  • Vallation,
  • buffet,
  • outwork,
  • redoubts.
  •care (noun)
  • super-visions,
  • super vision,
  • super-vision,
  • super visions.
  •condom (noun)
  • Johnnies,
  • Johnny,
  • safes,
  • rubbers,
  • prophylactics.
  •conservation (noun)
  • pre-serval,
  • pre-servals,
  • guardings,
  • preservings,
  • up keeps,
  • conservings,
  • super-vising,
  • sustentations,
  • preservals,
  • pre serval,
  • safeguardings,
  • cherishings,
  • governings,
  • pre serving,
  • managings,
  • up-keeps,
  • super vising,
  • up keep,
  • supervisings,
  • directings,
  • pre servals,
  • pre servings,
  • protectings,
  • pre-servings,
  • up-keep,
  • pre-serving.
  •cover (noun)
  • harborages,
  • harborage,
  • coverts.
  •covering (noun)
  • panoply.
  •custody (noun)
  • tute-lage,
  • custodianship,
  • trusteeships,
  • custodianships,
  • trusteeship,
  • keeping.
  •darkness (noun)
  • shadow.
  •defense (noun)
  • counterattack,
  • resistance,
  • reply,
  • barrier,
  • aversion,
  • argument,
  • rebuttal,
  • moat,
  • countermeasure,
  • barricade,
  • backfire,
  • answer,
  • shelter,
  • response,
  • wall,
  • safeguard,
  • retort,
  • shield.
  •dues (noun)
  • de-bits,
  • de bit,
  • de-bit,
  • de bits.
  •fortification (noun)
  • presidios,
  • blockhouses,
  • entrenchments,
  • presidio,
  • earthworks,
  • earthwork,
  • Embattlement,
  • entrenchment,
  • blockhouse.
  •guardianship (noun)
  • tutorship,
  • guardianship,
  • wardenship.
  •hedge (noun)
  • quickset,
  • hedgerow,
  • windbreak,
  • windbreaks,
  • hedgerows.
  •parapet (noun)
  • protective wall.
  •patrol (noun)
  • patroler,
  • Policing,
  • watchperson,
  • watchings.
  •patronage (noun)
  • auspice,
  • Patronization.
  •precaution (noun)
  • safety measures,
  • discreetness,
  • safety measure,
  • Canniness.
  •preservation (noun)
  • conservation.
  •preventative (noun)
  • preventives.
  •protection (noun)
  • preservation,
  • safekeeping,
  • reassurance,
  • insurance,
  • certainty,
  • assurance,
  • protective covering,
  • protective cover,
  • protecting,
  • fix,
  • charge,
  • armament,
  • strength,
  • safety,
  • trade protection,
  • stability,
  • self-defense,
  • surety.
  •refuge (noun)
  • hiding place,
  • safe place.
  •resistance (noun)
  • retardation,
  • impedances,
  • Insusceptibility,
  • impeding,
  • imperviousness,
  • Renitence,
  • Renitency,
  • impedance,
  • unsusceptibility,
  • striking back.
  •safe harbor (noun)
  • port in storm,
  • port a storm,
  • port storm,
  • safe-harbor,
  • safe havens.
  •safe house (noun)
  • safe-house.
  •safety (noun)
  • impunity,
  • Inviolability.
  •safety net (noun)
  • para chute,
  • para-chute,
  • level economic security guaranteed by government,
  • para-chutes,
  • safety-net,
  • government aids,
  • protective umbrellas,
  • sheet anchors,
  • safety plugs,
  • para chutes,
  • preventive measures.
  •sanctuary (noun)
  • holeups,
  • hole ups,
  • holeup,
  • hole-ups.
  •shadow (noun)
  • adumbrations,
  • penumbrae.
  •support (noun)
  • moral support.
  •trump (noun)
  • ace hole,
  • ace the hole.
  •tutelage (noun)
  • co-aching,
  • co aching,
  • coachings.
  •vantage (noun)
  • vantage.
  •ward (noun)
  • de pendent,
  • de pendents,
  • de-pendent,
  • de-pendents,
  • adopted children,
  • protegees,
  • protegee,
  • foster children.
  •well-being (noun)
  • eudaemonias,
  • well being,
  • wellbeings.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • domicile,
  • haven,
  • lair,
  • abode,
  • consumerism,
  • dwelling,
  • cocoon,
  • hospital,
  • uncovered,
  • peak,
  • umbrella,
  • burrow,
  • habitation,
  • salvation,
  • lightning rod,
  • lodge,
  • vaccination,
  • asylum,
  • lifesaver,
  • brim.
  •
  • expose,
  • bunk,
  • lockdown,
  • protector,
  • exposed,
  • salvage,
  • cushion,
  • residence,
  • den,
  • racket,
  • home,
  • board.
  •
  • steward,
  • quarter,
  • unprotected.
  •
  • bed,
  • bestow.
  •
  • house,
  • accommodate,
  • place.
  •
  • open.
  •guide
  • escort.
  •habitation
  • housing.
  •protection
  • protectorate.

Paraphrases for Protection:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    protect.
  • Proper noun, singular
    protect.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    protect.
  • Verb, past tense
    protecting, protected.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    protecting.
  • Verb, past participle
    protected.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    protecting, protects.
  • Verb, base form
    protect.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    child-protection.
  • Proper noun, singular
    preservation, guardianship.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    preservation, tutelage, guardianship.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    protected, protects, safety-net.
  • Proper noun, singular
    agreements, implications, Criteria, citizens, protected, sanctions, commitments, forces, Persons, Fisheries, products, Penalties, Companies, Measures, workers, advisers, employers, Standards, objectives, Trademarks, Children, Monopolies, delegates, Forms, Floods, individuals, wards, Marques, data, Goals, prevention, coverage, protects.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Criteria, data, certainty, protectorate, supervision, prevention, precaution, safekeeping, coverage, cushion, refuge, bulwark.
  • Verb, past tense
    guaranteed, ensured, secured, Defended, preserved, Provided, Offered, Believed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Sustaining, Storing.
  • Verb, past participle
    secured, sheltered, Influenced, Consigned, Disclaimed, felt, safeguarded, safeguard, coverage.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    preserves, ensures, secures, provides, regards, says, aims, requires, states, makes, procedures.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    protecting, safeguarding, safeguard.
  • Proper noun, singular
    protecting, interests, conservation, sites, safeguarding, safeguards, safeguard, welfare.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    protecting, conservation, protectionism, safeguarding, safeguard, welfare.
  • Verb, past tense
    safeguards, safeguard, welfare.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    safeguarding.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    safeguards.
  • Verb, base form
    safeguard.

Antonyms for Protection:

• n.

  • advantage
    handicap, hindrance, drawback, loss, restriction, obstacle, disadvantage.
  • bastion
    weak spot, weakness.
  • bulwark
    weak point.
  • protection
    harm, attack, hurt, threat, injury.
  • Other antonyms:
    instability, susceptibility, Vulnerableness, liability, desertion, jeopardy, abandonment, risk, offensive, violability, surrender, betrayal, susceptibleness, flight, capitulation, precariousness.

Protection Sentence Examples:

• She felt just as if they were really married, and he could not bear to die, feeling that she would be without protection, and that other men would all want to marry her, because she was beautiful.

• Kitty can take my place: she needs protection more than I; and there is not room for two.

Hypernym for Protection:

• n.

  • act
    care, momism, overprotection, guardianship, self-defence, charge, ruggedisation, ruggedization, patrol, escort, locking, immunization, accompaniment, immunisation, self-defense, shielding, defence, insulation, tutelage, sealing, saving, defense, civil defense, air cover, overshielding, self-protection, inoculating, vaccinating, preservation, waterproofing, covering, lockup.

Hyponym for Protection:

• n.

  • act
    activity.