EMIGRATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does emigrate mean?
• EMIGRATE (verb)
The verb EMIGRATE has 1 sense:
1. leave one's country of residence for a new one
Familiarity information: EMIGRATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EMIGRATE (verb)
Meaning:
Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period
Hypernyms (to "emigrate" is one way to...):
migrate; transmigrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)
"Emigrate" entails doing...:
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "emigrate"):
expatriate (move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
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Antonym:
immigrate (come into a new country and change residency)
