refugee

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ref=u=gee
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 2 verses (in OT : 3 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

refugee, n. [F. réfugié, fr. se réfugier to take refuge. See Refuge, n.].

•  One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.  [1913 Webster]
•  Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

refugee, n. a person taking refuge, esp. in a foreign country from war or persecution or natural disaster.

Etymology

F r{eacute}fugi{eacute} past part. of (se) r{eacute}fugier (as REFUGE)

THESAURUS

refugee

DP, Uitlander, absconder, alien, barbarian, bolter, deracine, displaced person, eloper, emigrant, emigre, escapee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fleer, foreign devil, foreigner, fugitive, gringo, outlander, outlaw, outsider, runagate, runaway, skedaddler, stateless person, stranger, the Wandering Jew, tramontane, ultramontane, wanderer

ROGET THESAURUS

refugee

Avoidance

N avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

Escape

N escape, scape, avolation, elopement, flight, evasion, retreat, narrow escape, hairbreadth escape, close call, come off, impunity, loophole, path, refuse, vent, vent peg, safety valve, drawbridge, fire escape, reprieve, liberation, refugee, escaping, escaped, stolen away, fled, the bird has flown the coop.

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.