Etymology
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From French expatrié , from ex- ( “ out of ” ) + patrie ( “ native land ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Adjective and noun: IPA (key ) : /ɛksˈpætɹi.ɪt/ , /ɛksˈpeɪ.tɹi.ɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Verb: IPA (key ) : /ɛksˈpætɹɪ.eɪt/ , /ɛksˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/
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Hyphenation: ex‧pa‧tri‧ate
Adjective
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expatriate (not comparable )
Living outside of one's own country.
Synonyms: émigré , outland , emigrant , immigrant
an expatriate rebel force
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living outside of one's own country
expatriate (plural expatriates )
One who lives outside one's own country .
Synonyms: émigré , outlander , emigrant , immigrant
One who has been banished from one's own country.
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person living outside own country
Afrikaans: expat , ekspat , uitgewekene
Arabic: مُغْتَرِب m ( muḡtarib )
Armenian: էմիգրանտ (hy) ( ēmigrant )
Bulgarian: изгнаник (bg) m ( izgnanik )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 僑民 / 侨民 (zh) ( qiáomín ) , 僑居國外者 / 侨居国外者 ( qiáojū guówài zhě ) , 海外國民 / 海外国民 ( hǎiwài guómín )
Czech: expatriant m
Danish: udvandrer
Dutch: buitenlander (nl) m
Esperanto: eksterlandano
Estonian: väljarännanu
Faroese: útiseti m
Finnish: ekspatriaatti (fi) , maastamuuttaja (fi)
French: expatrié (fr) m , expatriée (fr) f
Georgian: ემიგრანტი ( emigranṭi )
German: Auswanderer (de) m
Greek: απόδημος (el) m ( apódimos ) , ομογενής (el) m ( omogenís )
Hebrew: גולה m ( golé ) , מהגר m ( mehagér )
Hungarian: kivándorló (hu) , hazájától távol élő ember , ( dated ) emigráns (hu) , ( “foreigner” ) külföldi (hu)
Indonesian: ekspatriat (id)
Italian: espatriato (it) m
Japanese: ( colloquial ) 海外居住者 ( kaigai-kyojūsha ) ; ( Japanese tax law ) 非居住者 ( kaigai-kyojūsha )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: иселеник m ( iselenik )
Malay: ekspatriat
Polish: ekspatriant (pl) m , emigrant (pl) m
Portuguese: expatriado (pt) m
Romanian: expatriat (ro) m , expatriată f
Russian: эмигра́нт (ru) m ( emigránt ) , эмигра́нтка (ru) f ( emigrántka ) , экспатриа́нт (ru) m ( ekspatriánt ) , экспатриа́нтка (ru) f ( ekspatriántka ) , ( colloquial ) экспа́т (ru) m ( ekspát )
Spanish: expatriado (es) m
Swedish: utvandrare (sv) c , emigrant (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: gurbetçi (tr)
person banished from their own country
Translations to be checked: "moved over from
expat which did not distinguish between the senses"
Czech: expat m
Finnish: ulkomailla asuva henkilö , ekspatriaatti (fi) , emigrantti (fi)
French: expat (fr) m or f
Polish: ekspata (pl) m , ekspatka f , ekspat m
Portuguese: expatriado (pt) m , emigrante (pt) m , exilado (pt) m
Russian: эмигра́нт (ru) m ( emigránt ) , экспатриа́нт (ru) m ( ekspatriánt ) , экспа́т (ru) m ( ekspát ) ( colloquial, neologism )
Spanish: expatriado (es) m , emigrante (es) m , exiliado (es) m , exilado (es) m
Swedish: emigrant (sv) c , utvandrare (sv) c , utomlandsboende c , utlandsboende c
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expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates , present participle expatriating , simple past and past participle expatriated )
( transitive ) To banish ; to drive or force (a person) from his own country ; to make an exile of.
( intransitive ) To withdraw from one’s native country.
( intransitive ) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
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withdraw from one’s country
renounce citizenship and become a citizen of another country