EMIGRATE

emigrate

(verb) leave one’s country of residence for a new one; “Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

(intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.

Antonyms

• immigrate

Anagrams

• Meritage, graemite

Source: Wiktionary


Em"i*grate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emigrating.] Etym: [L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]

Definition: To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.

Em"i*grate, a.

Definition: Migratory; roving. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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