Refugee Synonyms

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Synonyms for Refugee

political refugee
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foreigner
The definition of a foreigner is a person born in a different country, or an outsider.
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exile
The state of being banished from one's home or country.
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castaway
A person or thing cast out or off, esp. an outcast
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defector
One who defects.
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foundling
An infant of unknown parents that has been found abandoned
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emigrant
A person who emigrates
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derelict
Land left dry by a permanent recession of the water line.
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evacuee
A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
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outlaw
(Historical) A person declared by a court of law to be deprived of legal rights and protection, generally for the commission of some crime: the killing of such a person was not a legal offense
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prodigal
One who is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance.
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renegade
A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
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fugitive
A person who is fleeing or escaping from something
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pariah
A member of one of the lowest social castes in India
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runaway
(Usually attributive) An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium.
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expatriate
An expatriated person
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alien
An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country.
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expellee
One who is subject to expulsion.
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ishmael
A male given name.
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displaced-person
One who has been driven from one's homeland or place of residence by war, internal upheaval, or natural disaster.
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outcast
One that has been excluded from a society or system.
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escapee
One that has escaped, especially an escaped prisoner.
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émigré
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homeless person
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seek
One who flees, as from home, confinement, captivity, or justice
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  • He also conquered the land of Asnunnak and carried off from Padan a stela belonging to a refugee from Malatia.

  • Gouverneur Morris's father, Lewis Morris (1698-1762), closed a long public career as judge of the vice-admiralty court of New York; his mother was descended from a French Protestant refugee, who had come to America to escape the persecution of Louis XIV.

  • Another department taken in hand was that of education; and the success which attended the opening of schools in the refugee camps was most striking.

  • She is currently voluntary support worker for the North East Refugee Service.

  • It may be said to begin with the arrival in 1620 of a small company including William Brewster, elder of the refugee church in Leiden, which founded Plymouth in the modern Massachusetts in the winter of that year.

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