refugee
refugee is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- avoid
- avoidance
- avolation
- away
- bacon
- belle
- bird
- break
- call
- clear
- close
- collar
- come
- coop
- creep
- deliverance
- disappear
- drawbridge
- effect
- elopement
- elude
- escape
- evasion
- find
- fire
- fled
- flight
- flown
- from
- fugitive
- get
- give
- good
- hairbreadth
- has
- hole
- impunity
- jail
- liberation
- loophole
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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