REFUGEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refugee mean? 

• REFUGEE (noun)
  The noun REFUGEE has 1 sense:

1. an exile who flees for safety

  Familiarity information: REFUGEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFUGEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exile who flees for safety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("refugee" is a kind of...):

exile; expat; expatriate (a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refugee"):

displaced person; DP; stateless person (a person forced to flee from home or country)

 Context examples 

How say you, sire? he asked, turning to the Spanish refugee, while the herald of Navarre was conducted from the chamber by the old warrior.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Natural and man-made disasters create refugee populations with immediate and long-term health problems.

(International Health, NIH)

The ideal case would be to combine both methods, strategic interviewing and thermography, moving our system to, for example, police stations, airports or refugee camps.

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)

Then there was Monsieur Rudin, the French Royalist refugee who lived over on the Pangdean road, and who, when the news of a victory came in, was convulsed with joy because we had beaten Buonaparte, and shaken with rage because we had beaten the French, so that after the Nile he wept for a whole day out of delight and then for another one out of fury, alternately clapping his hands and stamping his feet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)