displaced

[dis-pleyst]

adjective

1. lacking a home, country, etc.

2. moved or put out of the usual or proper place.

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. Usually the displaced persons who lack a home, as through political exile, destruction of their previous shelter, or lack of financial resources.

   After the earthquake, the displaced were temporarily housed in armories.

Other Word Forms

• undisplaced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of displaced¹

First recorded in 1565–75; displace + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Palestinians displaced by the war in told the Associated Press that they hoped the peace deal would allow them to leave the shelters and come home.

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"I saw displaced children just spending their time in queues for food and water - not having a childhood, and I wanted to do something, for them," she says.

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Its pre-war faces replaced by an ever-changing confetti of displaced people.

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Thousands have died and millions have been displaced since 2021, when the army seized power, triggering a civil war with armed resistance groups and ethnic militias.

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She is living in a rented garage, struggling each day to find food and clean water, and has been displaced multiple times.

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