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refugee [ˌrɛfjʊˈdʒiː] n a. a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution refugees from Rwanda b. (as modifier) a refugee camp a refugee problem refugeeism n A person who, by reason of real or imagined danger, has left their home country or country of their nationality and is unwilling or unable to return. See also dislocated civilian; displaced person; evacuee; expellee; stateless person. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
refugee noun exile, asylum seeker, émigré, displaced person, runaway, fugitive, escapee, stateless person an application for refugee status Translations refugee [ˌrefjʊˈdʒiː] refugee [ˌrɛfjuːˈdʒiː] refugee n → Flüchtling m refugee [ˌrɛfjʊˈdʒiː] n → rifugiato/a, profugo/a refugee [ˌrɛfjʊˈdʒiː] n → rifugiato/a, profugo/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee. the mouldy old refugee has an eye for character, though. Listen: my ancestor, a political refugee from Lisbon, and one of the first Portuguese who landed on these shores, wrote that when he was dying on those mountains which no white foot ever pressed before or since. |
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