emigrate
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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
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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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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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emigrate f pl
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emigrate f pl
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emigrate f
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emigrate
- inflection of emigrare:
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Latin edit
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ēmigrāte
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emigrate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of emigrar combined with te