émigré

See also: emigre, emigré, and émigre

English

Alternative forms

• emigre, émigre, emigré

Etymology

Borrowed from French émigré.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪ/

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Noun

émigré (plural émigrés)

1. (historical) A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 516:

     Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith […]

2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
   • 1983 July 22, Janet Maslin, “‘Liquid Sky,’ High Fashion and a U.F.O.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Slava Tsukerman is a Soviet émigré who has lived in New York City since 1976, apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land.

   • 1991, Vipan Chandra, “Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late Nineteenth-Century Developments”, in William Shaw, editor, Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:

     In retrospect, Sǒ's unqualified championship of the elective principle may seem somewhat naive. At the time, however, he believed his conviction was vindicated by the example of the self-governing Korean émigré settlements in Russian Manchuria (Siberia). After visiting them and observing their daily activities, British geographer Isabella B. Bishop had praised their contented lives and attributed this situation to the good leadership of their elected headmen.

   • 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:

     In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.

   • 2007 July 23, “A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:

     His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

   • 2008 September 20, David Amsden, “The Dubliners”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     […] the capital of a country that, like its Communist (and later post-Communist) sisters to the east, had long been known for turning its younger residents into aspiring émigrés.

   • 2014 February 20, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books:

     In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigrée

See also

• expatriate
• immigrant
• refugee

Anagrams

• regime, régime

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.mi.ɡʁe/

Noun

émigré m (plural émigrés, feminine émigrée)

1. emigrant

Participle

émigré (feminine émigrée, masculine plural émigrés, feminine plural émigrées)

1. past participle of émigrer

Further reading

• “émigré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• régime, rémige