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boat people en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (historical, plural, plural-normally) Refugees fleeing by sea, particularly those fleeing from South Vietnam during the 1970s and '80s.
   • Indochinese refugees, known throughout the world as the “boat people,” were subject to horrific suffering and dangers when the Vietnamese government began expelling them after the fall of Saigon. 2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 184e:
2. (plural, plural-normally) An ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats, particularly the Tanka or Dan people of East Asia.
3. (form-of, plural, plural-normally) plural of boat person
   form of boat person

Forms

Relateds

yacht people

Translations (11)

cmn 船民 (refugees fleeing by sea) · cmn 疍家 (ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats) · ru «лю́ди с ло́дки» (refugees fleeing by sea) · cmn 蜑家 (ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats) · de Boatpeople (refugees fleeing by sea) · fi venepakolaiset (refugees fleeing by sea) · de Schiffsvolk (ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats) · de Bootsflüchtlinge (refugees fleeing by sea) · fi venekansa (ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats) · vi người thuyền nhân (refugees fleeing by sea) · de Bootmenschen (ethnic group that principally lives on fishing and houseboats)