All 3 Uses of
refugee
in
The War of the Worlds
- Some of the refugees were exchanging news with the people on the omnibuses.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups, and along the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas lamps as ever there had been.†
Chpt 1.14
- The fleet of refugees was scattering to the northeast; several smacks were sailing between the ironclads and the steamboat.†
Chpt 1.17
Definition:
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(refugee) someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people