emigrate

emigrate

English

Etymology

From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕʹmĭ.grāt'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
• Homophone: immigrate (accents with pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em‧i‧grate

Verb

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

1. (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 [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:

     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

• immigrate

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

Translations

to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere

Albanian: emigroj (sq), mërgoj (sq) Armenian: արտագաղթել (artagałtʿel) 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)

Further reading

• emigrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• emigrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• emigrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Meritage, graemite

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Italian

Adjective

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Participle

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Noun

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

Verb

emigrate

1. inflection of emigrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• gremiate, megateri, mergiate, regimate, remigate

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Latin

Verb

ēmigrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmigrō