expatriate

Meanings

Plural: expatriates

Noun

a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
- "American expatriates"
One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
One who has been banished from one's own country.

Verb

expel from a country
move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
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.

Adj

Living outside of one's own country.

Origin / Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from Medieval Latin expatriātus, perfect passive participle of expatriō (“to banish”) (see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3)), from Latin ex- (“out of”) + patria (“native land”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); possibly after French expatrier and expatrié.

Synonyms

deport, emigrant, exile, expat, immigrant, outland, outlander, émigré

Antonyms

repatriate

Scrabble Score: 19

expatriate is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
expatriate is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 20

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