Flüchtling — meaning in English

English meaning

• escapee noun A person who has escaped from prison or another form of confinement.
• fugitive noun A person who is fleeing or hiding, especially to avoid arrest.
• refugee noun A person who has fled their home country to escape war, persecution, or disaster.

Senses

Flüchtling is used for these senses in English:

• escapee Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
• fugitive A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
• refugee (attributive, also, figurative) 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. [from 1680s]

fugitive — full definition

1. noun A person who is fleeing or hiding, especially to avoid arrest.
2. adjective Fleeing or running away.
3. adjective Lasting only a short time; fleeting.

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