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| Main Entry: |
refugee
[ref-yoo-jee, ref-yoo-jee]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person running from something, often oppression |
| Synonyms: | DP, alien, boat person, castaway, defector, derelict, deserter, displaced person, emigrant, escapee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, expellee, foreigner, foundling, fugitive, homeless person, leper, maroon, outcast, outlaw, prodigal, renegade, runaway, stateless person, émigré |
| Main Entry: | deserter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fugitive from responsibility |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, absconder, apostate, backslider, betrayer, criminal, defector, delinquent, derelict, escapee, escaper, hookey player, lawbreaker, maroon, no-show, recreant, refugee, renegade, runaway, shirker, slacker, traitor, truant |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | alien, colonist, departer, displaced person, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, migrator, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, émigré |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | nationalist, native |
| Main Entry: | émigré |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | DP, displaced person, exile, expatriate, foreigner, migrant, refugee |
| Main Entry: | escapee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fugitive |
| Synonyms: | defector, deserter, dodger, escaped prisoner, hunted person, jail-breaker, refugee, runaway |
| Main Entry: | exile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person deported from a place |
| Synonyms: | DP, deportee, displaced person, expatriate, expellee, fugitive, nonperson, outcast, outlaw, person without country, refugee, émigré |
| Main Entry: | expatriate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person thrown out of a country |
| Synonyms: | departer, deportee, displaced person, emigrant, evacuee, exile, expellee, migrant, outcast, refugee, émigré |
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
| Synonyms: | bolter, derelict, deserter, displaced person, dodger, escapee, escaper, evacuee, exile, fly-by-night, hermit, hunted person, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runagate, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, walkout, émigré |
| Main Entry: | homeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | displaced |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, banished, deported, derelict, desolate, destitute, disinherited, displaced, dispossessed, down-and-out, estranged, exiled, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, houseless, itinerant, outcast, refugee, uncared-for, unhoused, unsettled, unwelcome, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, without a roof |
| Antonyms: | settled |
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