noun, adjective
noun ~ (from sb/sth) a person who has escaped or is running away from somewhere and is trying to avoid being caught:
a fugitive from justice
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 trying to avoid being caught:
a fugitive criminal
2 (literary) lasting only for a very short time:
a fugitive idea / thought
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fugitive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does fugitive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — fugitive appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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