Expatriate
//ɛksˈpætɹi.ɪt// adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
- 2 a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country wordnet
- 3 One who has been banished from one's own country.
Verb
- 1 To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. transitive
- 2 move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad wordnet
- 3 To withdraw from one’s native country. intransitive
- 4 expel from a country wordnet
- 5 To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country. intransitive
Adjective
- 1 Living outside of one's own country. not-comparable
"an expatriate rebel force"
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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.
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