refugee
a person who has to leave his/her home country because of war
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Faced with hundreds of thousands of refugees and reports of murders, alliance planners began to talk about the need to 'adapt' their bombing plan."
(Crisis in the Balkans - New York Times March 31, 1999)
(Crisis in the Balkans - New York Times March 31, 1999)
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Etymology: French rifugii, past participle of se réfugier to take refuge, from Latin refugium
Date: 1685
: one that flees;
especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution
Merriam-Webster
Etymology: French rifugii, past participle of se réfugier to take refuge, from Latin refugium
Date: 1685
: one that flees;
especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution
Merriam-Webster
