refugee camp

1. 1.

   shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

   Synonymscamp

   Broadershelter

Questions about refugee camp

What does refugee camp mean?

refugee camp means "shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs".

What is another word for refugee camp?

Close synonyms include camp. 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 refugee camp a common word?

refugee camp 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.