refugee
nounEtymology
From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge, to seek refuge”), from Old French refuge (“hiding place”) from Latin refugium (“a place of refuge, place to flee back to”), originally describing French Huguenots fleeing religious persecution after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Noun sense 1 was "one seeking asylum" until 1914, when it evolved to mean more generally "one fleeing home" (first applied in this sense to civilians in Flanders heading west to escape fighting in World War I). By surface analysis, refuge + -ee. Displaced native Old English flīema.
Definitions
A person seeking refuge (as for shelter or protection), especially in a foreign country,…
A person seeking refuge (as for shelter or protection), especially in a foreign country, out of fear or prospect of political, religious persecution, war, natural disaster, etc.
- In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.
A person who is fleeing from justice, punishment deemed righteous, etc.
A person who is fleeing from justice, punishment deemed righteous, etc.; a runaway, a fugitive.
To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
The neighborhood
- synonymflightling
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at refugee. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at refugee. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at refugee
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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