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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

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Meaning:

An exile who flees for safety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

exile; expatriate (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)

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