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Emigre vs Expatriate - What's the difference?

emigre | expatriate | Related terms |

Emigre is a related term of expatriate.


As verbs the difference between emigre and expatriate

is that emigre is while expatriate is to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

As an adjective expatriate is

of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.

As a noun expatriate is

one who lives outside one’s own country.

emigre

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee.
  • Between the wars, Paris was the center for all the world's emigres .
  • An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    expatriate

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
  • * an expatriate mailing list
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives outside one’s own country.
  • One who has been banished from one’s own country.
  • Synonyms

    * * outland

    Derived terms

    * expat * rex-pat, rex-patriate

    See also

    * immigrant * emigrant

    Verb

    (expatriat)
  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  • To withdraw from one’s native country.
  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.