expatriate
One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or…One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
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» Tom is an expatriate.
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2 sensesOne who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
Auswanderer
эмигра́нтemigránt, эмигра́нткаemigrántka, экспатриа́нтekspatriánt
a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
One who has been banished from one's own country.
Verbannter, Exilant, Exulant
изгна́нникizgnánnik
Examples
6 sentencesTom is an expatriate.
Algeria has a big expatriated population.
She wants to expatriate.
I work with a group of Algerian expatriates.
With JAL tickets so expensive, expatriates flew Air Iraq.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
The verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from MedievalThe verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from Medieval Latin expatriātus, perfect passive participle of expatriō (“to banish”) (see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3)), from Latin ex- (“out of”) + patria (“native land”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); possibly after French expatrier and expatrié.
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Forms
plural: expatriates| Singular | expatriate |
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Synonyms
6 synonymsWord family
8 related wordsSee also
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