refugee
noun
1 refugee
An exile who flees for safety.
Roget 268:
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 [U.S.],
night walker,
sleep walker;
noctambulist,
runabout,
straphanger,
swagman,
swagsman [Austral.];
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†.
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Roget 623:
abstention,
abstinence;
for bearance†;
refraining
etc.
v.;
inaction
etc.
681;
neutrality.
avoidance,
evasion,
elusion;
seclusion
etc.
893.
avolation†,
flight;
escape
etc.
671;
retreat
etc.
287;
recoil
etc.
277;
departure
etc.
293;
rejection
etc.
610.
shirker
etc.
v.;
truant;
fugitive,
refugee;
runaway,
runagate;
maroon.
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Roget 671:
escape,
scape;
avolation†,
elopement,
flight;
evasion
etc.
(avoidance)
623;
retreat;
narrow escape,
hairbreadth escape;
close call;
come off,
impunity.
[Means of escape]
loophole
etc.
(opening)
260;
path
etc.
627;
refuse
etc.
666;
vent,
vent peg;
safety valve;
drawbridge,
fire escape.
reprieve
etc.
(deliverance)
672;
liberation
etc.
750.
refugee
etc.
(fugitive)
623.
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Dutch: ontheemde, uitgewekene, vluchteling
Polish: uchodźca, wychodźca
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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