Reply #5: The first part of the def'n applies: [View All]

[crispini]

"Somebody seeking safe place. "

m-w also has: " one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution"

if you google the phrase "refugee from the storm" you get 278 hits. it's a common english phrase.

i don't see why people get so torqued up about this. i personally dislike the term "evacuee" -- it sounds so clinical and cold.

refugee hits right at the heart of what has happened to them, IMO -- they have been displaced in a very horrible way.