Emigrate vs Immigration - What's the difference?
emigrate | immigration | Related terms |
To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
* Macaulay
* J. H. Newman
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
Immigration is a related term of emigrate.
As a verb emigrate
is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.As a noun immigration is
the act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.emigrate
English
Verb
(emigrat)- Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
- They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
