emigrate

From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

• enPR: ĕʹmĭ.grāt'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
• Homophone: immigrate (accents with pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em‧i‧grate

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emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
   • 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     Forced to emigrate in a body to America.

   • 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches:

     They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

• immigrate

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

• “emigrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “emigrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “emigrate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Meritage, graemite

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

emigrate

1. inflection of emigrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• gremiate, megateri, mergiate, regimate, remigate

ēmigrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmigrō

emigrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of emigrar combined with te