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See also: Safe, SAFE, and -safe

English

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Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: sāf, IPA(key): /seɪf/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪf
  • Hyphenation: safe

Adjective

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safe (comparative safer or more safe, superlative safest or most safe)

  1. Not in danger; out of harm's reach. You’ll be safe from the storm here in the cabin.
  2. Free from risk. Synonyms: riskless, harmless Antonyms: harmful, dangerous It’s safe to eat this berry.
    • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 133:In fact, in presenting the home life of these people I have been at some pains to avoid the extreme of privation, taking the cases just as they came to hand on the safer middle-ground of average earnings.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
    • 2012, D.B. Myers, The BodyWise Health System, page 37:Probably the safest and easiest 'tool' that you can use to get off your rusty-dusty and follow your choice of exercise routine.
  3. Providing protection from danger; providing shelter. We have to find a safe spot, where we can hide out until this is over.
  4. (baseball) 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. The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.
  5. (snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
  6. Properly secured. Synonym: secure Hyponyms: binary-safe, fail-safe, thread-safe, type-safe The documents are safe inside the cabbinet.
  7. (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm. dishwasher-safe
  8. (UK, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection. Synonyms: wicked, cool; see also Thesaurus:awesome
    • 1996 August 12, "Mandrake", “Re: Multiple Messages - an apology”, in uk.people.gothic‎[1] (Usenet):and you also forgot to mentioned[sic] the wheels man you know bmw playing / ragga jungle hip hop tunes / and on the mobile / yeah safe! / nice one / later
    • 1996 or 1997, Roy Williams, Plays 1: The No Boys Cricket Club / Startstruck / Lift Off‎[2], Methuen, published 2002, →ISBN, page 165:Young Mal: Yu can’t. Irie means yer cool, yer safe, everything awright.
    • 2000, Teddy Hayes, Dead by Popular Demand‎[3], Justin, Charles & Co., published 2005, →ISBN, Chapter 14, page 134:“If you need more, just ring, yeah?” Punch said. “Safe,” Brian answered.
    • 2002, Danny Braverman, Playing a Part: Drama and Citizenship‎[4], Trentham Books, →ISBN, One Thursday — a short play, page 62:They end the call. Fami goes over to Paul. They touch hands.¶ Femi: Yeah, safe man.
    • 2013, Steve Carter, Love, Sex and Tesco's Finest Cava, →ISBN, page 169:“Yeah, safe mate, wassup?” says one hoodie, who should at least be credited with attempting a more detailed sentence construction.
    • 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:Dom (David Jonsson): Hey, love the photos. They're just so—Nathan (Simon Manyonda): Safe.
  9. (UK, law, of a conviction) Supported by evidence and unlikely to be overturned. Usually used in the negative, as unsafe. It is clear that this is not a safe conviction.
  10. (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going. Synonyms: easy-going, merciful, tolerant, lenient Antonyms: strict, harsh, intolerant
  11. Reliable; trusty. Synonym: trustworthy safe food
  12. Certain; sure.
    • 1883, Emma Raymond Pitman, Florence Godfrey's Faith: A Story of Australian Life, page 137:"[…] so if you think he is at the infirmary, I'll make my way there." "He's safe to be there, my lad, because he's house surgeon to the infirmary, and they do say he's a very clever one."
    • 2023 May 3 [????], William Hamilton Maxwell, Erin-go-Bragh: Vol. I, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 318:"He's safe to be hanged, an' that, all in an' out, when they recovred there senses an' ther tongue, offert to make affidavid on, if they were askt upon oath."
  13. Cautious.
  14. (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.

Antonyms

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Descendants

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  • → Japanese: セーフ (sēfu)
  • → Korean: 세이프 (seipeu)

Translations

[edit] not in danger — see also safe and sound
  • Albanian: Si Gur
  • Arabic: أَمِين (ar) (ʔamīn), سَالِم (sālim), آمِن (ar) (ʔāmin)
  • Armenian: ապահով (hy) (apahov), անվտանգ (hy) (anvtang)
  • Azerbaijani: əmin
  • Bavarian: sichar
  • Belarusian: бяспе́чны (be) (bjaspjéčny)
  • Bulgarian: в безопа́сност (v bezopásnost)
  • Burmese: please add this translation if you can
  • Catalan: segur (ca), salv (ca)
  • Chechen: please add this translation if you can
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 安全 (on1 cyun4) Mandarin: 安全 (zh) (ānquán)
  • Czech: bezpečný (cs)
  • Danish: sikker (da), udenfor fare (no longer in danger)
  • Dutch: veilig (nl)
  • Esperanto: sekura
  • Estonian: ohutu, turvaline
  • Finnish: (olla) turvassa
  • French: en sécurité, (no longer in danger) sauf (fr)
  • Galician: seguro (gl), salvo, zafo
  • Georgian: უვნებელი (uvnebeli)
  • German: sicher (de), gefahrlos (de)
  • Greek: ασφαλής (el) (asfalís) Ancient: ἀσφαλής (asphalḗs)
  • Hebrew: בָּטוּחַ (he) (batuach), בְּטוּחָה f (b'tucha)
  • Higaonon: naluwas
  • Hindi: सुरक्षित (hi) (surakṣit)
  • Hungarian: biztonságban van
  • Icelandic: öruggur (is) m, tryggur (is) m
  • Interlingua: salve, secur
  • Irish: slán
  • Italian: sicuro (it)
  • Japanese: 安全 (ja) (あんぜん, anzen)
  • Khmer: មានសុវត្ថិភាព (miən sovatthephiəp)
  • Korean: 안전하다 (ko) (anjeonhada)
  • Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ساغ (saẍ)
  • Lao: ປອດໄພ (pǭt phai)
  • Latin: tūtus, securus
  • Latvian: drošs (lv), sveiks (lv)
  • Lithuanian: saugus
  • Lü: please add this translation if you can
  • Macedonian: безбеден (bezbeden), сигурен (siguren)
  • Malay: selamat (ms)
  • Maori: marutau, haumaru
  • Middle English: sauf, siker
  • Norman: sauf
  • Norwegian: sikker (no), trygg
  • Old English: ġeheald
  • Persian: ایمن (fa) (imen)
  • Polish: bezpieczny (pl) m
  • Portuguese: salvo (pt), seguro (pt), a salvo (pt)
  • Romanian: sigur (ro)
  • Russian: в безопа́сности (v bezopásnosti)
  • Scottish Gaelic: sàbhailte
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: безбедан, сигуран Roman: bezbedan (sh), siguran (sh)
  • Sicilian: sicuru (scn)
  • Slovak: bezpečný
  • Slovene: varen (sl)
  • Spanish: seguro (es), salvo (es), a salvo (es) (adverb), en salvo (adverb), a flote (adverb)
  • Swahili: uganda (sw)
  • Swedish: säker (sv), trygg (sv), i säkerhet
  • Tagalog: ligtas
  • Tamil: பாதுகாப்பாக (pātukāppāka)
  • Thai: ปลอดภัย (th) (bplɔ̀ɔt-pai)
  • Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
  • Tongan: malu
  • Turkish: emin (tr)
  • Ukrainian: безпе́чний (uk) (bezpéčnyj)
  • Urdu: محفوظ (mahfūz)
  • Vietnamese: an toàn (vi)
  • Welsh: diogel (cy)
  • West Frisian: feilich
  • Zhuang: ancienz
free from risk — see also careful,‎ cautious
  • Armenian: անվտանգ (hy) (anvtang), ապահով (hy) (apahov)
  • Belarusian: бяспе́чны (be) (bjaspjéčny)
  • Bulgarian: сигурен (bg) (siguren)
  • Catalan: segur (ca)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 安全 (zh) (ānquán)
  • Czech: bezpečný (cs) m
  • Dutch: veilig (nl), ongevaarlijk (nl)
  • Finnish: turvallinen (fi)
  • French: sans danger, sûr (fr), safe (fr)
  • Galician: seguro (gl) m
  • Georgian: საიმედო (saimedo)
  • German: sicher (de)
  • Greek: ασφαλής (el) (asfalís), ακίνδυνος (el) (akíndynos)
  • Hungarian: biztonságos (hu)
  • Icelandic: öruggur (is) m, hættulaus (is) m, áhættulaus (is) m, háskalaus (is) m
  • Interlingua: secur
  • Italian: sicuro (it)
  • Japanese: 安全 (ja) (あんぜん, anzen)
  • Korean: 안전하다 (ko) (anjeonhada)
  • Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ساغ (saẍ)
  • Latin: tūtus
  • Latvian: drošs (lv), sveiks (lv)
  • Lithuanian: saugus
  • Maori: marutau, haumaru
  • Middle English: siker
  • Norwegian: sikker (no), trygg
  • Old English: ġeheald
  • Polish: bezpieczny (pl) m
  • Portuguese: seguro (pt)
  • Russian: безопа́сный (ru) (bezopásnyj)
  • Slovak: bezpečný
  • Slovene: varen (sl)
  • Spanish: seguro (es), sano (es)
  • Swahili: uganda (sw)
  • Swedish: säker (sv), riskfri (sv)
  • Tamil: பாதுகாப்பானது (pātukāppāṉatu)
  • Turkish: emin (tr), güvenilir (tr)
  • Ukrainian: безпе́чний (uk) (bezpéčnyj)
  • Vietnamese: an toàn (vi)
  • Welsh: diogel (cy)
  • Zazaki: emel n
providing protection from danger
  • Albanian: Ru, Si Gur o
  • Armenian: ապահով (hy) (apahov)
  • Bulgarian: безопа́сен (bg) (bezopásen)
  • Catalan: segur (ca)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 安全 (zh) (ānquán)
  • Dutch: veilig (nl)
  • Finnish: turvallinen (fi)
  • French: sûr (fr)
  • Georgian: უსაფრთხო (usaprtxo)
  • German: sicher (de)
  • Hungarian: biztonságos (hu)
  • Icelandic: öruggur (is) m, tryggur (is) m
  • Italian: protetto (it)
  • Japanese: 安全 (ja) (あんぜん, anzen)
  • Latvian: drošs (lv)
  • Lithuanian: saugus
  • Middle English: sauf, siker
  • Norwegian: trygg
  • Polish: bezpieczny (pl) m
  • Portuguese: seguro (pt)
  • Russian: безопа́сный (ru) (bezopásnyj)
  • Scottish Gaelic: dìonach
  • Slovak: bezpečný
  • Slovene: varen (sl)
  • Swahili: uganda (sw)
  • Swedish: säker (sv)
  • Tamil: காக்க (kākka), பாதுகாக்க (ta) (pātukākka)
  • Turkish: emin (tr), güvenilir (tr)
  • Vietnamese: an toàn (vi), chắc chắn (vi)
  • Welsh: diogel (cy)
baseball: in the base
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 安全球 (ānquánqiú)
  • Finnish: turvassa (fi)
  • French: sauf (fr) m
  • Japanese: セーフ (ja) (sēfu)
  • Korean: 세이프 (seipeu)
  • Maori: tūpai
  • Swedish: säker (sv)
  • Vietnamese: an toàn (vi)
properly secured
  • Albanian: Si Gurt
  • Armenian: ապահով (hy) (apahov)
  • Dutch: veilig (nl), zekergesteld, veiliggesteld (nl)
  • Finnish: turvassa (fi), tallessa (fi)
  • French: en sécurité, à l'abri (fr), en lieu sûr (fr)
  • Georgian: დაცული (daculi)
  • German: sicher (de)
  • Hungarian: biztonságos (hu)
  • Icelandic: öruggur (is) m, tryggur (is) m
  • Middle English: sauf, siker
  • Norwegian: sikker (no)
  • Polish: bezpieczny (pl) m
  • Portuguese: seguro (pt), a salvo (pt)
  • Russian: безопа́сный (ru) (bezopásnyj), надёжный (ru) (nadjóžnyj)
  • Slovak: zabezpečený, chránený
  • Slovene: varen (sl)
  • Swahili: uganda (sw)
  • Swedish: säker (sv)
  • Tamil: பாதுகாப்பாக (pātukāppāka)
  • Turkish: emin (tr)
  • Vietnamese: chắc chắn (vi)
  • Welsh: diogel (cy)
not in danger from a specified source of harm
  • Finnish: kestävä (fi)
  • Icelandic: -heldur m
  • Polish: bezpieczny (pl)
  • Swedish: -säker
  • Vietnamese: an toàn (vi)
slang: wicked, cool, awesome
  • Finnish: siisti (fi)
  • Portuguese: massa (pt) (Brazil), legal (pt) (Brazil)
  • Swahili: uganda (sw)
reliable
  • Bulgarian: надежден (bg) (nadežden)
  • Finnish: luotettava (fi)
  • Latin: fidus
  • Middle English: siker
  • Tamil: நம்பகமான (nampakamāṉa), நம்பகமானது (nampakamāṉatu)
  • Vietnamese: đáng tin cậy, chắc chắn (vi), ổn định (vi), ổn (vi)
cautious
  • Finnish: varovainen (fi)
  • Tamil: பார்த்து (pārttu)
  • Vietnamese: thận trọng (vi), dè dặt (vi)
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  • Indonesian: (please verify) aman (id), (please verify) selamat (id)
  • Italian: (please verify) sicuro (it)
  • Swedish: (please verify) säker (sv)
  • Telugu: (please verify) క్షేమం (te) (kṣēmaṁ), (please verify) భద్రం (te) (bhadraṁ), (please verify) పదిలం (te) (padilaṁ), (please verify) పైలం (te) (pailaṁ)
  • Volapük: (please verify) sefik (vo), (please verify) neriskodik (vo)

Noun

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safe (plural safes)

  1. A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping. Synonyms: coffer, lockbox, strongbox Hyponym: failsafe
    • 1992, Shashi Tharoor, Show Business: A Novel, page 144: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.
  2. (slang) A condom. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom
    • 1989 August 19, Gerard L. Ready, “Possessing A Condom Is An Offense!”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 4: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!
    • 1999, Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, Delta, published 1999, →ISBN, page 328:She'd better have an arsenal of Trojans in her purse just in case he wasn't carrying a safe in his back pocket.
  3. (dated) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29: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.
  4. (dated, colloquial) A safety bicycle.

Descendants

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  • → German: Safe
  • → Polish: sejf
  • → Russian: сейф (sejf)
    • → Kazakh: сейф (seif)
    • → Bulgarian: сейф (sejf)

Translations

[edit] box in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping
  • Afrikaans: kluis (af)
  • Albanian: kasafortë (sq) f, kasë (sq) f
  • Arabic: خَزْنَة حَدِيدِيَّة f (ḵazna ḥadīdiyya), خَزْنَة f (ḵazna), خزانة f (ḵazāna) Gulf Arabic: تجوري m (tijūri) South Levantine Arabic: خزانة f (ḵazāne)
  • Armenian: սեյֆ (hy) (seyf)
  • Assamese: চন্দুক (sonduk)
  • Asturian: caxa fuerte f, cofre (ast) m
  • Azerbaijani: seyf, kassa (az)
  • Belarusian: сейф m (sjejf)
  • Bulgarian: сейф (bg) m (sejf)
  • Burmese: မီးခံသေတ္တာ (my) (mi:hkamsetta), အာမခံသေတ္တာ (my) (ama.hkamsetta)
  • Catalan: caixa forta f
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 保險櫃 / 保险柜 (zh) (bǎoxiǎnguì), 保險箱 / 保险箱 (zh) (bǎoxiǎnxiāng), 金庫 / 金库 (zh) (jīnkù)
  • Czech: trezor (cs) m, sejf (cs) m
  • Danish: pengeskab (da) n, værdiboks c (small, notably in a hotel room)
  • Dutch: kluis (nl) f, safe (nl) f
  • Esperanto: sekurŝranko m
  • Estonian: seif
  • Finnish: kassakaappi (fi) (large), tallelokero (fi) (small)
  • French: coffre-fort (fr) m, coffre (fr) m
  • Galician: caixa forte f, cofre m
  • Georgian: სეიფი (seipi)
  • German: Tresor (de) m, Safe (de) m, Geldschrank (de) m
  • Greek: χρηματοκιβώτιο (el) n (chrimatokivótio) Ancient: ῥίσκος m (rhískos)
  • Greenlandic: boksi
  • Hebrew: כַּסֶּפֶת (he) (kasefet)
  • Hindi: सेफ़ (sef), ख़ज़ाना m (xazānā)
  • Hungarian: széf (hu), páncélszekrény (hu)
  • Icelandic: peningaskápur m, öryggisskápur m
  • Indonesian: brankas (id)
  • Interlingua: cassa forte, coffro
  • Italian: cassaforte (it) f
  • Japanese: 金庫 (ja) (きんこ, kinko)
  • Kazakh: сейф (seif)
  • Khmer: ហិបប្រាក់ (həp prak)
  • Korean: 금고 (ko) (geumgo)
  • Kyrgyz: сейф (seyf)
  • Lao: ຕູ້ນິຣະໄພ (tū ni ra phai), ກຳປັ່ນ (kam pan)
  • Latin: arca f
  • Latvian: seifs m
  • Lithuanian: seifas m
  • Macedonian: сеф m (sef), ка́са f (kása), бла́гајна f (blágajna)
  • Malay: peti besi (ms), peti keselamatan
  • Mongolian: сейф (mn) (sejf)
  • Norwegian: safe m
  • Persian: گاوصندوق (fa) (gâvsanduq)
  • Plautdietsch: Kauss f
  • Polish: sejf (pl) m
  • Portuguese: cofre (pt) m
  • Romanian: seif (ro) n
  • Russian: сейф (ru) m (sejf)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сеф m, трезор m Roman: sȅf (sh) m, trèzōr (sh) m
  • Slovak: trezor m, sejf m
  • Slovene: sef (sl) m
  • Spanish: caja fuerte (es) f, cofre (es) m
  • Swahili: uganda (sw), sefu (sw)
  • Swedish: kassaskåp (sv)
  • Tagalog: kaha de yero
  • Tajik: сейф (seyf)
  • Tamil: பாதுகாப்புப் பெட்டகம் (pātukāppup peṭṭakam)
  • Thai: กำปั่น (th) (gam-bpàn), ตู้เซฟ (th), ตู้นิรภัย
  • Turkish: kasa (tr)
  • Turkmen: seýf
  • Ukrainian: сейф m (sejf)
  • Urdu: سیف (sef)
  • Uzbek: seyf (uz)
  • Vietnamese: tủ sắt (vi), két sắt
  • Yiddish: סייף (seyf)
  • Zazaki: qasa f

Verb

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safe (third-person singular simple present safes, present participle safing, simple past and past participle safed)

  1. (transitive) To make something safe.
    • 2007, Rocky Raab, Mike Five Eight: Air War Over Cambodia: Air War Over Cambodia‎[5]:“It just trails behind the pylon until I land, then Cramer removes it when he safes the rocket pods. No evidence of anything when I taxi back inside the compound.”
    • 2012, Erik Seedhouse, Interplanetary Outpost:One of the most important events after touchdown will be to safe the Dauntless, which will include purging the engines and shutting down the landing systems […]

Derived terms

[edit] Terms derived from safe (adjective, noun, verb)
  • better safe than sorry
  • binary safe
  • biosafe
  • childsafe
  • Coolgardie safe
  • covid-safe
  • cybersafe
  • dishwasher safe
  • drop safe
  • ensafe
  • e-safe
  • fail safe, fail-safe
  • firesafe
  • French safe
  • gender-safe
  • ice-safe
  • in safe hands
  • is this a safe space
  • keep yourself safe
  • letter of safe conduct
  • match safe
  • meat safe
  • memory-safe
  • microwave safe
  • night safe
  • nonsafe
  • on the safe side
  • pie safe
  • play it safe
  • play safe
  • quantum-safe
  • safe account scam
  • safe and sound
  • safe area
  • safe as a kitten
  • safe as a kitten in a basket
  • safe as a kitten in a box
  • safe as houses
  • safe as the Bank of England
  • safe bet
  • safeblower
  • safeblowing
  • safebox
  • safebreaker
  • safebreaking
  • safe-conduct
  • safe conduct
  • safecracker
  • safe-cracker
  • safecracking
  • safe day
  • safe-deposit
  • safe-deposit box
  • safeguard
  • safe harbor
  • safehaven
  • safe haven
  • safe hit
  • safehold
  • safehouse
  • safe in the knowledge
  • safeish
  • safekeeping
  • safelight
  • safelike
  • safelist
  • safely
  • safemaker
  • safemaking
  • safen
  • safe navigation operator
  • safeness
  • safe pair of hands
  • safe place
  • safe pledge
  • safe prime
  • safe room
  • safer sex
  • safe seat
  • safe sex
  • safe space
  • safe third country
  • safe travels
  • safe word
  • safeword
  • supersafe
  • tape safe
  • threadsafe
  • type-safe
  • ultrasafe
  • vouchsafe
  • websafe
  • work-safe

See also

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  • save
  • safety

Further reading

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  • “safe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “safe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • “safe”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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  • EAFs, faes, EFSA, FAEs, EFAs

German

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Etymology

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English safe, originally borrowed in the context of safe sex (safer Sex, 1980s), later generalized.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sɛɪ̯f/, /seːf/, /zeːf/
    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
  • (with the grammatical ending -e) IPA(key): /sɛɪ̯fə/
    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Adjective

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safe (strong nominative masculine singular safer, comparative safer, superlative am safesten)

  1. safe Synonym: sicher
    • 2022 May 18, Leif Erik Sander, quotee, “Corona: Warum sich manche noch nicht angesteckt haben”, in Der Spiegel‎[6], →ISSN:Dass man Corona bisher nicht hatte, heißt nicht, dass man für alle Zeit safe ist.Just because someone hasn't had corona yet doesn't mean that they're safe forever.

Declension

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number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist safe sie ist safe es ist safe sie sind safe
strong declension (without article) nominative safer safe safes safe
genitive safen safer safen safer
dative safem safer safem safen
accusative safen safe safes safe
weak declension (with definite article) nominative der safe die safe das safe die safen
genitive des safen der safen des safen der safen
dative dem safen der safen dem safen den safen
accusative den safen die safe das safe die safen
mixed declension (with indefinite article) nominative ein safer eine safe ein safes (keine) safen
genitive eines safen einer safen eines safen (keiner) safen
dative einem safen einer safen einem safen (keinen) safen
accusative einen safen eine safe ein safes (keine) safen
Comparative forms of safe
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist safer sie ist safer es ist safer sie sind safer
strong declension (without article) nominative saferer safere saferes safere
genitive saferen saferer saferen saferer
dative saferem saferer saferem saferen
accusative saferen safere saferes safere
weak declension (with definite article) nominative der safere die safere das safere die saferen
genitive des saferen der saferen des saferen der saferen
dative dem saferen der saferen dem saferen den saferen
accusative den saferen die safere das safere die saferen
mixed declension (with indefinite article) nominative ein saferer eine safere ein saferes (keine) saferen
genitive eines saferen einer saferen eines saferen (keiner) saferen
dative einem saferen einer saferen einem saferen (keinen) saferen
accusative einen saferen eine safere ein saferes (keine) saferen
Superlative forms of safe
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist am safesten sie ist am safesten es ist am safesten sie sind am safesten
strong declension (without article) nominative safester safeste safestes safeste
genitive safesten safester safesten safester
dative safestem safester safestem safesten
accusative safesten safeste safestes safeste
weak declension (with definite article) nominative der safeste die safeste das safeste die safesten
genitive des safesten der safesten des safesten der safesten
dative dem safesten der safesten dem safesten den safesten
accusative den safesten die safeste das safeste die safesten
mixed declension (with indefinite article) nominative ein safester eine safeste ein safestes (keine) safesten
genitive eines safesten einer safesten eines safesten (keiner) safesten
dative einem safesten einer safesten einem safesten (keinen) safesten
accusative einen safesten eine safeste ein safestes (keine) safesten

Adverb

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safe

  1. (youth slang) definitely, absolutely, sure Synonyms: sicher, auf jeden Fall, bestimmt "Willst du 'nen Film gucken?" -"Safe!" ― "Wanna watch a movie?" -"Sure!" Ich werde es safe vergessen. ― I'll definitely forget it.
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  • Safe

Further reading

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  • “safe”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sáː.fé/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [sáː.ɸé]

Adverb

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sāfe

  1. in the morning

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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safe

  1. alternative form of sauf

Preposition

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safe

  1. alternative form of sauf

Conjunction

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safe

  1. alternative form of sauf

Etymology 2

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Verb

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safe

  1. (Northern) alternative form of saven

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsa.fi/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsa.fi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsa.fe/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsa.fɨ/
  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -afi, (Portugal) -afɨ
  • Hyphenation: sa‧fe

Verb

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safe

  1. inflection of safar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Noun

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safe n (plural safeuri)

  1. alternative form of seif

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative safe safeul safeuri safeurile
genitive-dative safe safeului safeuri safeurilor
vocative safeule safeurilor

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