Another word for refugee
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Noun
One who flees, as from home, confinement, captivity, or justice
- A person or animal that has run away.
- Something that has escaped control or proper confinement.
- An easy victory.
- Running away or fleeing, as from the law.
- Of or relating to fugitives:
- Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
- One that has escaped, especially an escaped prisoner.
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Another word for refugee
Noun
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- One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
- An outlaw; a rebel.
- Of, relating to, or resembling a renegade; traitorous.
- Running away or fleeing, as from the law.
- Of or relating to fugitives:
- Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
- One that has been excluded from a society or system.
- Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign:
- Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange.
- Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature:
- One who has been driven from one's homeland or place of residence by war, internal upheaval, or natural disaster.
- Rashly or wastefully extravagant:
- Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse:
- One who is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance.
- In the Bible, the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac. He is traditionally considered to be the forebear of the Arabs.
- A fugitive from the law.
- A habitual criminal.
- A rebel; a nonconformist:
- A social outcast:
- A Dalit.
- A deserted or abandoned child of unknown parentage.
- Deserted by an owner or keeper; abandoned:
- Run-down; dilapidated:
- Neglectful of duty or obligation; remiss.
- Cast adrift or ashore; shipwrecked.
- Discarded; thrown away.
- A shipwrecked person.
- one who defects.
- A person who has been evacuated from a dangerous area.
- One who is expelled.
- One who is from a foreign country or place.
- One who is from outside a particular group or community; an outsider.
- One that emigrates.
- Of or relating to emigrants or the act of emigrating.
- Running away or fleeing, as from the law.
- Of or relating to fugitives:
- Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
- To send into exile:
- To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
- To give up residence in one's homeland.
- The condition or period of being forced to live away from one's native country or home, especially as a punishment.
- The condition or period of self-imposed absence from one's country or home:
- One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
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