Immigrated vs Emigrated - What's the difference?
immigrated | emigrated |
(immigrate)
To move into a country from another one to stay permanently.
(emigrate)
To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
* Macaulay
* J. H. Newman
As verbs the difference between immigrated and emigrated
is that immigrated is past tense of immigrate while emigrated is past tense of emigrate.immigrated
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(head)immigrate
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(immigrat)Antonyms
* emigrateDerived terms
* immigrant * immigrationemigrated
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(head)emigrate
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(emigrat)- Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
- They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.