"emigrate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/ [pin-pen-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-emigrate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: emigrates [present, singular, third-person], emigrating [participle, present], emigrated [participle, past], emigrated [past]
enPR: ĕʹmĭ.grāt' Etymology: From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|emigratus}} Latin emigratus, {{m|la|emigrare||to move away, remove, depart from a place}} emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), {{m|la|e||out}} e (“out”), {{m|la|migrare||to move, remove, depart}} migrare (“to move, remove, depart”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)
  1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere. Tags: intransitive Related terms: emigrant, emigration, émigré, immigrant, immigrate, immigration, migrate, migration, migratory Translations (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere): emigroj (Albanian), mërgoj (Albanian), արտագաղթել (artagaġtʻel) (Armenian), emigrar (Catalan), 移民 (yímín) (Chinese Mandarin), 移居 (yíjū) (Chinese Mandarin), emigrovat (Czech), emigrere (Danish), udvandre (Danish), emigreren (Dutch), elmigri (Esperanto), muuttaa maasta (Finnish), emigroitua (Finnish), émigrer (French), auswandern (German), emigrieren (German), emigrál (Hungarian), kivándorol (Hungarian), emigrar (Ido), emigrare (Italian), 移住する (ijū suru) (alt: いじゅうする) (Japanese), 移民する (imin suru) (alt: いみんする) (Japanese), maunu (Maori), emigrar (Portuguese), эмигри́ровать (emigrírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), переселя́ться (pereseljátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), пересели́ться (pereselítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), emigrar (Spanish), emigrera (Swedish), utvandra (Swedish), ymfudo (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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          "word": "emigrovat"
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          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "word": "muuttaa maasta"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "word": "emigrare"
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          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "word": "移住する"
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          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "word": "maunu"
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          "word": "emigrar"
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          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "эмигри́ровать"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "pereseljátʹsja",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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          "word": "пересели́ться"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "word": "emigrar"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "word": "emigrera"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
          "word": "utvandra"
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
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        }
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      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigroj"
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "mërgoj"
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      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "արտագաղթել"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrar"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yímín",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "移民"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yíjū",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "移居"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrere"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "udvandre"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigreren"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "elmigri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "muuttaa maasta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigroitua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "émigrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "auswandern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "kivándorol"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いじゅうする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ijū suru",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "移住する"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いみんする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "imin suru",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "移民する"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "maunu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "emigrírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "эмигри́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pereseljátʹsja",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "переселя́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pereselítʹsja",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "пересели́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "emigrera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "utvandra"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere",
      "word": "ymfudo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "emigrate"
}

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