fugitive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: fu‧gi‧tive
Noun
[edit]fugitive (plural fugitives)
- A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
Synonyms
[edit]- abscotchalater (archaic)
- nomad
- wanderer
- runaway
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
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Adjective
[edit]fugitive (comparative more fugitive, superlative most fugitive)
- Fleeing or running away; escaping.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.
- Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
- Elusive or difficult to retain.
Translations
[edit]fleeing or running away
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transient, fleeting or ephemeral
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elusive or difficult to retain
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fugitive f (plural fugitives)
Further reading
[edit]- “fugitive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fugitīve
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