safety

safe-ty · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    The condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury.

  2. 2.

    A device designed to prevent injury or damage.

  3. 3.

    (American football) A defensive play in which the offensive team is tackled in their own end zone, scoring two points for the defense.

  4. 4.

    (American football) A defensive player positioned deep in the secondary.

Forms

plural: safeties

Related words

Antonyms: danger, hazard, peril, risk
See also: protection, safe, secure
Synonyms: protection, safeness, security, shelter

Etymology

From Middle English saufte, from Old French sauveté ("safety, salvation"), from Medieval Latin salvitas, from Latin salvus ("safe, uninjured"). The suffix -ty forms abstract nouns denoting quality or condition.