safe space

noun

: a place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations

… student volunteers put up posters advertising that a "safe space" would be available for anyone who found the debate too upsetting.

—Judith Shulevitz

Women, sexual assault victims, people of color, transgender students. College campuses have created "safe spaces" for all sorts of marginalized groups.

—Catherine Rampell

Examples of safe space in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The goal is to create an inviting, safe space to share the heartfelt experience of diving into a taboo topic which unites everyone. —Encinitas Advocate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025

Today’s Stand Downs continue this tradition of providing a safe space for veterans to access resources and rebuild connections within their military community. —Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025

People would come in from the streets in the beginning of the war to be in a safe space. —Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025

All the women in the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen have always created a safe space in food. —Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for safe space

• aerospace
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• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
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• fireplace
• hyperspace