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fugitives

fugitives is the plural of fugitive.

fugitives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fugitive.

Meaning of fugitive

Noun

fugitive (plural fugitives)

  1. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
    • “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...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

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Phrases with fugitives

Questions about fugitives

What is fugitives the plural of?
Fugitives is the plural of fugitive.

Words near fugitives in the dictionary

  1. fugitive pigment
  2. fugitive pigments
  3. fugitived
  4. fugitively
  5. fugitiveness
  6. fugitives
  7. fugitives from justice
  8. fugitives of the law
  9. fugitiving
  10. fugitivism
  11. fugitivity

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