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# fugitive

«fugitive» in Mova's school dictionary: **running away or hiding, especially from the police or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fugitive, fugitives); adjective (fugitive)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who is running away or hiding, especially from the police or from danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#m1)

2) (adjective) Running away or escaping: «a fugitive slave». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#m2)

3) (literary, adjective) Lasting only a short time, fleeting: «a fugitive smile». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, history and the news. In The Wind in the Willows Toad becomes a fugitive after escaping from prison, disguised as a washerwoman. In history lessons on slavery, fugitives escaped to freedom along the Underground Railroad. In the Bible, Cain is told he will be a fugitive and a wanderer.

### examples

- The fugitive hid in the woods from the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#x1)
- Toad was now a fugitive, running from the law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#x2)
- Fugitives from the war crossed the border. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#x3)
- Harriet Tubman helped fugitive slaves reach freedom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#x4)
- The police caught the fugitive at the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#x5)
- A fugitive smile crossed her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#x6)
- In vain do the fugitives attempt to escape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/#x7)

### note

Not the same as a refugee: a refugee flees danger to find safety and is not a criminal; «fugitive» often means running from the law. Comes from Latin «fugere», to flee.

### In the corpora

- [The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.437/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fugitive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fugitive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.