adjective, noun
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 (of a person) having left without telling anyone:
a hostel for runaway children
2 (of an animal or a vehicle) not under the control of its owner, rider or driver:
a runaway horse / car
3 happening very easily or quickly, and not able to be controlled:
a runaway winner / victory * the runaway success of her first play * runaway inflation
noun a person who has suddenly left or escaped from sb/sth, especially a child who has left home without telling anyone:
teenage runaways living on the streets
Rate this entry
About this entry
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 runaway is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does runaway appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — runaway appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
