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# refugee

«refugee» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who has had to leave their home country because…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a refugee, refugees)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A refugee is a person who has had to leave their home country because of war, danger or being treated cruelly, and who has gone to live somewhere safer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#m1)

2) More loosely, anyone who has had to escape from a place: «refugees from the flood». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, history and citizenship lessons refugees come up in topics on war, migration and human rights. In stories, a refugee child often has to learn a new language and make friends in a new school. Phrases: «refugee camp», «refugee status», «asylum seeker», «flee as a refugee», «welcome refugees».

### examples

- A new girl in our class is a refugee from a country at war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#x1)
- The family lived in a refugee camp for two years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#x2)
- Refugees often leave with only what they can carry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#x3)
- Our school collected warm coats for refugees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#x4)
- Many people became refugees after the earthquake destroyed their towns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#x5)
- The book tells the story of a refugee boy crossing the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#x6)
- Countries have laws that protect refugees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refugee/#x7)

### note

Countable: one refugee, two refugees; stress on the last part: ref-u-GEE. A refugee is not the same as a migrant: a migrant may move by choice (for work), a refugee has to flee. An asylum seeker is someone who has asked for protection and is still waiting for an answer. Speak respectfully: refugees are ordinary people in a hard situation.

### In the corpora

- [Many Ukrainian refugee children go to local schools by day and log on to their Ukrainian school online as well, news reports said.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/25-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives/15/)
- [A 1951 agreement says countries must not send refugees back to danger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes/1/)
- [The 1951 Refugee Convention, an international agreement, says countries must not send refugees back to danger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes/11/)
- [A refugee is someone who had to leave their country to be safe, for example because of war.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/8/)
- [King Herod was jealous and tried to kill the baby, so Jesus' family escaped to Egypt as refugees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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