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English
Etymology
From Latin emigratus, perfect passive participle of emigro (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + migro (“to move, remove, depart”).
Pronunciation
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.
1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T F E, editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches:They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- Albanian: emigroj (sq), mërgoj (sq)
- Armenian: արտագաղթել (artagaġtʻel)
- Catalan: emigrar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 移居 (zh) (yíjū)
- Czech: emigrovat
- Danish: emigrere, udvandre
- Dutch: emigreren (nl)
- Esperanto: elmigri
- Finnish: muuttaa maasta, emigroitua (fi)
- French: émigrer (fr)
- German: auswandern (de), emigrieren (de)
- Hungarian: emigrál (hu), kivándorol (hu)
- Ido: emigrar (io)
- Italian: emigrare (it)
- Japanese: 移住する (ja) (いじゅうする, ijū suru), 移民する (ja) (いみんする, imin suru)
- Maori: maunu
- Portuguese: emigrar (pt)
- Russian: эмигри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (emigrírovatʹ), переселя́ться (ru) impf (pereseljátʹsja), пересели́ться (ru) pf (pereselítʹsja)
- Spanish: emigrar (es)
- Swedish: emigrera (sv), utvandra (sv)
- Welsh: ymfudo (cy)
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Further reading
- “emigrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “emigrate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “emigrate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Adjective
emigrate f pl
- feminine plural of emigrato
Participle
emigrate f pl
- feminine plural of emigrato
Etymology 2
Noun
emigrate f
- plural of emigrata
Etymology 3
Verb
emigrate
- inflection of emigrare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
ēmigrāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of ēmigrō
Spanish
Verb
emigrate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of emigrar combined with te