expat

English

Alternative forms

• ex-pat

Etymology

Short form of expatriate.

Noun

expat (plural expats)

1. An expatriate; a person who lives outside his or her own country.

Translations

An expatriate

Finnish: ulkomailla asuva henkilö, ekspatriaatti French: expat (fr) m. and f. Russian: эмигрант (ru) (emigránt) m., экспатриант (ru) (ekspatriánt) m., экспат (ru) (ekspát) m. (colloquial, neologism)

Spanish: expatriado (es) m., emigrante (es) m., exiliado (es) m., exilado (es) m. Swedish: emigrant (sv) c., utvandrare (sv) c., utomlandsboende (sv) c., utlandsboende (sv) c.

Adjective

expat (not comparable)

1. The noun used attributively.
   • 2003: I wasn’t Henry Miller, I wasn’t Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin, I wasn’t any of those expat guys. — Charles D’Ambrosio, in The New Yorker, 8 Dec 2003