different between refugee vs nomad

English

Etymology

From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge”), describing early French Protestants seeking refuge after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fj?d?i?/, /??fj??d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

refugee (plural refugees)

1. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country, i.e., a person seeking political asylum.
2. A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster, war, etc.
3. A person formally granted political or economic asylum by a country other than their home country.
4. (by extension) A person who flees one place or institution for another.
   • 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)

     Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.

Derived terms

• rapefugee
• reffo
• refugeehood
• refugitive

Translations

Verb

refugee (third-person singular simple present refugees, present participle refugeeing, simple past and past participle refugeed)

1. (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

See also

• asylum
• citizenshipless
• countryless
• economic asylum
• nationless
• political asylum
• refoulement
• refuge

English

Etymology

From Middle French nomade, from Latin nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??mæd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?no?mæd/

Noun

nomad (plural nomads)

1. (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
   • 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay as A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:

     The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...

   • 2013 August, Henry Petroski, "Geothermal Energy" in American Scientist, Vol. 101, No. 4:

     Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

2. (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
3. (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
4. (figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.

Synonyms

• (wanderer): See Thesaurus:vagabond

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)

1. Synonym of nomadic.

References

• "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• Damon, Doman, Domna, Mando, mad on, mad-on, mando, monad

Romanian

Etymology

From French nomade. Compare Aromanian numad.

Noun

nomad m (plural nomazi)

1. nomad

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ma?d/
• Hyphenation: no?mad

Noun

nòm?d m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. nomad

Declension