EXPATRIATE

exile, expatriate, expat

(noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; “American expatriates”

expatriate

(verb) move away from one’s native country and adopt a new residence abroad

expatriate, deport, exile

(verb) expel from a country; “The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government’s actions”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

expatriate (not comparable)

Living outside of one's own country.

Noun

expatriate (plural expatriates)

One who lives outside their own country.

One who has been banished from their own country.

Synonyms

• Ă©migrĂ©

• outland

Verb

expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriating, simple past and past participle expatriated)

(transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

(intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.

(intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Source: Wiktionary


Ex*pa"tri*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expatriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expatriating.] Etym: [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot.]

1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.

2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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