Usually means: Person fleeing to avoid capture.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word fugitive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fugitive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fugitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fugitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fugitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fugitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fugitive, fugitive: Wordnik
  7. fugitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fugitive: Wiktionary
  9. fugitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fugitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fugitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fugitive, fugitive: Dictionary.com
  13. fugitive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fugitive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Fugitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fugitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fugitive: Rhymezone
  19. fugitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fugitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fugitive: Free Dictionary
  22. fugitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fugitive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. fugitive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FUGITIVE: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fugitive: Easton Bible

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
adjective:  Fleeing or running away; escaping.
adjective:  Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
adjective:  Elusive or difficult to retain.
verb:  (transitive) To render someone a fugitive; to drive into escape or exile.

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