emigrate

[ em-i-greyt ]

/ ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪt /

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verb (used without object), em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing.

to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate: to emigrate from Ireland to Australia.

Origin of emigrate

1770–80; < Latin ēmīgrātus moved away (past participle of ēmīgrāre), equivalent to ē- e-¹ + mīgrātus ( mīgr- remove + ātus -ate¹)

synonym study for emigrate

See migrate.

OTHER WORDS FROM emigrate

em·i·gra·tive, adjective re·em·i·grate, verb (used without object), re·em·i·grat·ed, re·em·i·grat·ing. un·em·i·grat·ing, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH emigrate

emigrate immigrate migrate (see synonym study at migrate)

Words nearby emigrate

emg, emg syndrome, emic, emiction, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, emigratory, emil, emilia-romagna, emily

Example sentences from the Web for emigrate

During the Cold War, the West Germans used to pay the East Germans to release political prisoners and allow them to emigrate.

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According to The Guardian, in some small communities, youth are handed money to emigrate to richer Norway.

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And the inequality of economic burden is what pushes the most educated of young Israelis to emigrate.

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My book "1948" and its reception abroad will allow me to emigrate to Boston, to my wife's family.

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He proposed legislation that would provide federal subsidies to encourage them to emigrate.

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For instance, we have been forbidding the Austrians to join with Germany, to emigrate, or to obtain the raw materials of industry.

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The Licenciado Antonio de Olvera was about to emigrate to the colonies and wished to protect himself from insult.

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A large part of them is without daily bread and without shelter, and they emigrate in considerable numbers to New Russia.

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Forty or fifty night-walkers were sent every week to Bridewell, and numbers were induced to emigrate to the colonies.

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Why emigrate from a region but just reclaimed from barbarism, where good land was still abundant?

Stephen A. Douglas |Allen Johnson

British Dictionary definitions for emigrate

emigrate

/ (ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪt) /

verb

(intr) to leave one place or country, esp one's native country, in order to settle in another Compare immigrate

Derived forms of emigrate

emigratory, adjective

Word Origin for emigrate

C18: from Latin ēmīgrāre, from mīgrāre to depart, migrate

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emigrate

verb (used without object), em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing.

Origin of emigrate

synonym study for emigrate

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British Dictionary definitions for emigrate

verb

Derived forms of emigrate

Word Origin for emigrate

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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emigrate

verb (used without object), em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing.

Origin of emigrate

synonym study for emigrate

OTHER WORDS FROM emigrate

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH emigrate

Words nearby emigrate

Words related to emigrate

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