refugee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge, to seek refuge”), from Old French refuge (“hiding place”) from Latin refugium (“a place of refuge, place to flee back to”), originally describing French Huguenots fleeing religious persecution after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Noun sense 1 was "one seeking asylum" until 1914, when it evolved to mean more generally "one fleeing home" (first applied in this sense to civilians in Flanders heading west to escape fighting in World War I). By surface analysis, refuge + -ee. Displaced native Old English flīema.
Inflected forms:
form: refugees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: refugees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refugeeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refugeed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refugeed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person seeking refuge (as for shelter or protection), especially in a foreign country, out of fear or prospect of political, religious persecution, war, natural disaster, etc.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
figuratively
examples: In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.
The eight military bases being used to house Afghan refugees have a total capacity of 50,000 to house evacuees. […] The nine refugee resettlement agencies who work in coordination with the federal government will ultimately determine where Afghans are relocated, based on whether they have US ties or where their local affiliates have capacity to take them in.
While thousands of refugees were evacuated from the New Orleans convention center, chaos continued at the airport, thousands were still trapped in homes and hotels, fires raged virtually unchecked in parts of the city, the power was out, and vast sections were still under water.
Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.
Alluding to the regional consequences of a war in the Taiwan Strait, Zelensky pointed out that there could be millions of refugees, similar to the result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
gloss: A person who is fleeing from justice, punishment deemed righteous, etc.; a runaway, a fugitive.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
gloss: To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
pos: verb
tags: US
historical
transitive
Synonyms: flightling
Derived words: antirefugee
climate refugee
economic refugee
environmental refugee
internal refugee
leftugee
McRefugee
nonrefugee
quota refugee
rapefugee
reffo
refugee camp
refugeedom
refugeehood
refugeeism
refugeeship
refugitive
refujew
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: փախստական
roman: pʻaxstakan
lang: Belarusian
word: уцяка́ч
roman: ucjakáč
lang: Belarusian
word: уцяка́чка
roman: ucjakáčka
lang: Belarusian
word: бе́жанец
roman: bjéžanjec
lang: Belarusian
word: бе́жанка
roman: bjéžanka
lang: Bulgarian
word: бежане́ц
roman: bežanéc
lang: Bulgarian
word: бежанка́
roman: bežanká
lang: Catalan
word: refugiat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 難民 /难民
roman: nànmín
lang: Czech
word: uprchlík
lang: Finnish
word: pakolainen
lang: German
word: Flüchtling
lang: Hindi
word: शरणार्थी
roman: śarṇārthī
lang: Hungarian
word: menekült
lang: Malay
word: pelari
lang: Malayalam
word: അഭയാർത്ഥി
roman: abhayāṟtthi
lang: Māori
word: konene
lang: Polish
word: uchodźca
lang: Portuguese
word: asilado
lang: Russian
word: бе́женец
roman: béženec
lang: Russian
word: бе́женка
roman: béženka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fògarrach
lang: Swahili
word: mkimbizi
lang: Tamil
word: அகதி
roman: akati
lang: Ukrainian
word: бі́женець
roman: bíženecʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: бі́женка
roman: bíženka