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evacuee

/ɪˌvæk.juˈiː/

evacuee noun: a person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war.

Noun

evacuee (plural evacuees)

  1. A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
    • In the three weeks since, the city has repeatedly relocated evacuees on short notice. To reopen schools, it bused many to armories, turning drill floors into open dormitories for the first time since a 1980s lawsuit halted the practice. […] Confusion about who was in charge made the chaos worse...2012 November 20, Nina Bernstein, “Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023

evacuee meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic

evacuee in Tamil

ஊரிலி, நாடிலி, வீடிலி, வெளியேற்றப்பட்டவர்

evacuee in Bengali

evacuee
মুহাজির muhajir

evacuee in Kannada

ಸ್ಥಳಾಂತರಗೊಂಡವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ನಿರ್ವಾಸಿತ

evacuee in Arabic

person
مُرَحَّل muraḥḥal
More languagesFewer languages
evacuee in Malay
pemindah
evacuee in Indonesian
pengungsi

Forms of evacuee

pluralevacuees

Origin of evacuee

From French évacué, évacuée, from évacuer, equivalent to evacu(ate) + -ee.

Questions about evacuee

What does evacuee mean?
Evacuee means a person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war.
What is evacuee in Tamil?
Evacuee in Tamil is ஊரிலி, நாடிலி, வீடிலி. See Evacuee meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is evacuee?
Evacuee is a noun.
How do you pronounce evacuee?
Evacuee is pronounced /ɪˌvæk.juˈiː/.
What is the plural of evacuee?
The plural of evacuee is evacuees.

Words near evacuee in the dictionary

  1. evacuatories
  2. evacuators
  3. evacuatory
  4. evacuchair
  5. evacuchairs
  6. evacuee
  7. evacuees
  8. evacuole
  9. evacuoles
  10. evadable
  11. evade

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: evacuee (page history and authors); evacuee (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মুহাজির (Bengali) (page history and authors); evacuee (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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