Meaning of DISPLACED PERSON
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person forced to flee from home or country |
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| | Synonyms: | | DP, stateless person |
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| | See Also: | | refugee | |
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| | Definition: | | Displaced Person
The author, born in Kiev in 1936, became a displaced person after World War II and, with her mother, emigrated to Mississippi to escape the consequences of the war, which they had spent in a refugee camp. The family`s survival depended upon a series of lies and half truths, which young Ella had to come to terms with as she also assimilated life in a new country--a country that itself didn`t match up with the lies she had been told about it in the movies of the time. more details ... |
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| | Related Terms: | | absconder, alien, barbarian, bolter, castaway, declasse, deported population, deportee, deracine, derelict, DP, eloper, emigrant, emigre, escapee, evacue, evacuee, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, fleer, foreign devil, foreigner, fugitive, gringo, immigrant, in-migrant, Ishmael, leper, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlander, outlaw, out-migrant, outsider, pariah, persona non grata, refugee, runagate, runaway, skedaddler, social outcast, stateless person, stranger, the Wandering Jew, tramontane, trekker, Uitlander, ultramontane, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable, wanderer, wetback |
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