emigrate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- 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
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb[edit]
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[homas] F[lower] E[llis], 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.
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Translations[edit]
to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
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Further reading[edit]
- “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.
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Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
emigrate f pl
Participle[edit]
emigrate f pl
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
emigrate f
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
emigrate
- inflection of emigrare:
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
ēmigrāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
emigrate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of emigrar combined with te
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