émigré

Examples

• All

• I asked my neighbor Fred, a retired émigré from Germany, and his wife Gertrude if they were leaving.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Wolfram remembers a visit from a German émigré newly arrived from southern Russia.

  Academic text (2011)

• Your family in Paris is involved in a dangerous émigré organization.

  Doctor Zhivago (1965)

• The saturnine man over there talking with a lovely French émigré is already a Nazi.

  Blog text (29)

• An émigré from China, he is atypical of the success stories in Hong Kong.

  Academic text (1998)

• Beginning in 1972, a group of more radical-thinking émigrés began meeting to discuss their views of the revolution.

  Academic text (1998)

• Most émigrés who today favor a political rapprochement with Cuba developed this perspective slowly over time.

  Academic text (1998)

• Influencing foreign policy was possible due to the émigrés' growing clout in domestic politics.

  Academic text (1998)

• He was an unknown Polish émigré who happened to be an anarchist... of the "propaganda by the deed" variety.

  Slacker (1991)

• The Cuban Committee for Democracy, in turn, was founded by liberal Cuban émigrés, most of them businessmen, academics, and other professionals.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

I

immigrant

vsémigré

768 2.5

A person who moves to another country to live there for a long time

focuses on leaving one's country rather than arriving elsewhere

M

migrant

vsémigré

181 3.5

A person who moves to another country or region to find work

is typically motivated by political reasons rather than economic ones

E

exile

vsémigré

87 4.9

A person who lives away from their home country, often for political or personal reasons

is usually a voluntary political relocation rather than enforced banishment

E

expat

vsémigré

16 5.5

A person who lives in another country by choice

is often driven by political reasons rather than personal choice

E

emigrant

vsémigré

6 3.8

A person who leaves their country to live in another country

is often motivated by political reasons rather than general relocation

E

emigree

vsémigré

• UK

8.2

A person who leaves their country to live in another country

is typically driven by political reasons rather than ordinary resettling

O

outgoer

vsémigré

9.1

A person who leaves their country to live in another country

usually leaves because of political reasons rather than general choice

Surface Forms

Etymology