displaced person

1. 1.

   a person forced to flee from home or country

   SynonymsDPstateless person

   Broaderrefugee

Questions about displaced person

What does displaced person mean?

displaced person means "a person forced to flee from home or country".

What is another word for displaced person?

Close synonyms include DP, stateless person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is displaced person a common word?

displaced person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.