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 →

2) More loosely, anyone who has had to escape from a place: «refugees from the flood». tree →

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 →
• The family lived in a refugee camp for two years. tree →
• Refugees often leave with only what they can carry. tree →
• Our school collected warm coats for refugees. tree →
• Many people became refugees after the earthquake destroyed their towns. tree →
• The book tells the story of a refugee boy crossing the sea. tree →
• Countries have laws that protect refugees. tree →

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.
• A 1951 agreement says countries must not send refugees back to danger.
• The 1951 Refugee Convention, an international agreement, says countries must not send refugees back to danger.
• A refugee is someone who had to leave their country to be safe, for example because of war.
• King Herod was jealous and tried to kill the baby, so Jesus' family escaped to Egypt as refugees.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «refugee» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.