"safe space" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: safe spaces [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} safe space (plural safe spaces)
  1. (sociology) A place or domain serving as a tolerant environment for people (especially a marginalized group) where they do not face harassment, criticism, scrutiny, etc.; especially one in which participants are understood to share a given political or social viewpoint. Categories (topical): Leftism, Social justice, Sociology Hyponyms: cry room, crying room Translations (place serving as a tolerant environment): safe space [feminine] (Dutch), turvallinen tila (Finnish), espace sûr [masculine] (French), Safe Space [masculine] (German), Schutzraum [masculine] (German), безопасное пространство (bezopasnoje prostranstvo) (Russian)

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          "ref": "1983 December 24, Nancy Reiko, Midge Ward, Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, Emily Woo Yamasaki, “Lesbians Of Color”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 4:",
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          "text": "The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member. In more familiar Mafia terms, it's as if he murdered a made man. And he violated another rule by doing it on the grounds of a Continental hotel, the supposed safe spaces for assassins around the world.",
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