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Expatriate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To send into exile. See Synonyms at banish.

v. To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.

verb-intransitive. To give up residence in one's homeland.

verb-intransitive. To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.

n. One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.

n. One who has renounced one's native land.

adj. Residing in a foreign country; expatriated: "She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome” ( Janet H. Murray).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.

n. One who lives outside one’s own country.

n. One who has been banished from one’s own country.

v. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

v. To withdraw from one’s native country.

v. To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

v. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To banish; send out of one's native country.

Reflexively, to withdraw from one's native country; renounce the rights of citizenship where one was born, and become a citizen of another country.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. expel from a country

v. move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

n. a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

Word Usage

"Twombly profited from the global economy, and yet as an individual and an artist he was very much of a particular milieu, that of the American sophisticate in Europe although he hated the label "expatriate"."

Verb Form

expatriated expatriates expatriating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

expel kick out throw out emigrate

Cross Reference

immigrant emigrant

Form

expatriated expatriating rex-patriate rex-pat expat

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

banish expel

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Patriot compatriot patriot repatriate

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

panelist good-natur twenty-nine-year-old non-indigenous émigré