Refugee
[refjʊ'dʒiː] or ['rɛfjʊdʒi]
Definition
(n.) One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Seymour
Examples
- Leave the refugee alone! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Some were refugee cities representing smashed communities, and in these the aboriginal substratum would be missing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The mudfish would have seemed then a poor refugee from the too crowded and aggressive life of the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He went aboard a British frigate, the _Bellerophon_, asking to be received as a refugee, but being treated as a prisoner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dear Miss Briggs [the refugee wrote], the kindest heart in the world, as yours is, will pity and sympathise with me and excuse me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This afforded an opportunity of giving employment to such of the refugees within our lines as had teams suitable for our purposes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Traders assembled there, and refugees from the twelve towns found an asylum and occupation at this trading centre. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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