Expatriate vs Emigrate - What's the difference?
expatriate | emigrate |
Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
* an expatriate mailing list
One who lives outside one’s own country.
One who has been banished from one’s own country.
To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
To withdraw from one’s native country.
To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
* Macaulay
* J. H. Newman
In lang=en terms the difference between expatriate and emigrate
is that expatriate is to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country while emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.As verbs the difference between expatriate and emigrate
is that expatriate is to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of while emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.As an adjective expatriate
is of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.As a noun expatriate
is one who lives outside one’s own country.expatriate
English
(wikipedia expatriate)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* * outlandDerived terms
* expat * rex-pat, rex-patriateSee also
* immigrant * emigrantVerb
(expatriat)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.