noun
Meaning 1
Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
escapee
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˌɛsˌkeɪˈpi/
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General-American: /əˈskeɪˌpi/
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rhymes with -iː
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CMU ARPABET: IH0 S K EY2 P IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Someone who has escaped.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A plant that has escaped from cultivation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
someone who escapes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fugitive, fugitive from justice
History
Etymology
From escape + -ee.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: беглец (beglec) — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Chinese Mandarin: 逃犯 (táofàn) — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Czech: uprchlík — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Finnish: karkuri — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- German: Flüchtling — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Icelandic: flóttamaður — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Māori: taurewa — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Māori: rerenga — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Russian: бегле́ц (begléc) — someone free through escaping imprisonment
- Swedish: rymling — someone free through escaping imprisonment
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