Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To leave one country or region to settle in another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having wandered forth; wandering; roving.
- To quit one country, state, or region and settle in another; remove from one country or region to another for the purpose of residence: as, Europeans emigrate to America; the inhabitants of New England emigrate to the Western States.
- Synonyms Immigrate, etc. See
migrate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.
- adjective obsolete Migratory; roving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
leave the country in which one lives, especially one'snative country, in order toreside elsewhere.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is like arguing that having laws against murder and rape will only make murderers and rapists emigrate from the country.
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Only the most horrifying convergence of sheer monster power ever to emigrate from the old world.
Dark Horse Title Shipping in December | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The country from where most people emigrate is Morocco, which in 2005 had more then 3 million Moroccan citizens registered at the Moroccan consulates abroad.
Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008
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"Canada has made it possible for * some* same-sex couples and individual lesbians and gay men to emigrate from the United States to Canada under Bill C-23 and the new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-27), passed in 2002."
free advice 2004
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I grew up with an awareness of terrorism, because my grandpa did emigrate from a war-torn country, a country which to this day is ripping itself apart through terrorist acts.
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Many people will still emigrate from a sense of adventure.
Our Common Wealth 1955
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Also "Briefly Noted" by The New Yorker: "Purging the immigrant novel of all swagger and sentimentality, TóibÃn leaves us with a renewed understanding that to emigrate is to become a foreigner in two places at once."
Omni Daily News Omnivoracious 2009
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Also "Briefly Noted" by The New Yorker: "Purging the immigrant novel of all swagger and sentimentality, TóibÃn leaves us with a renewed understanding that to emigrate is to become a foreigner in two places at once."
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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You can't "emigrate" from Puerto Rico to New York, though you can move between the two places.
Gregg Easterbrook: What Is The "National Origin" of Apple Pie? 2009
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Ummm, first of all, apparently you want to "emigrate" not "immigrate," unless you are talking in regard to the US.
Against the Human Development Index, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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