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Emigrant vs Exile - What's the difference?

emigrant | exile |

As nouns the difference between emigrant and exile

is that emigrant is someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country while exile is the state of being banished from one's home or country.

As a verb exile is

to send into exile.

emigrant

English

(Emigration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.

    • Antonyms

    * immigrant

    Related terms

    * emigration

    Anagrams

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    exile

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia exile) (en noun)
  • The state of being banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let them be recalled from their exile .
  • Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.

    Synonyms

    * (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expat

    Derived terms

    * internal exile

    Verb

    (exil)
  • To send into exile.
  • * Tennyson
    • Exiled from eternal God.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

    Synonyms

    * banish

    Anagrams

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