Nonreturner

Nonreturner

Nonreturner may refer to a person, who did not returned to some initial destination point, or to previous way of life, etc.

  • Never-returners (Sanskrit: Anāgāmī), a group of noble disciples (Buddhist Sekhas) on the Buddhist path.
  • Nonreturnees (Russian: невозвращенцы), a slang term for Soviet citizen who refused to come back to USSR from the trips abroad.

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