These days, when people emigrate, it is not so much in search of sunshine, or food, or even servants.
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Emigrate
//ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt//
Synonyms for "emigrate" (26 found)
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12 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 22 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- emigroj verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- mërgoj verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Armenian
1 entries- արտագաղթել verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Catalan
1 entries- emigrar verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 移居 verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- 移民 verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Czech
1 entries- emigrovat verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Danish
2 entries- emigrere verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- udvandre verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Dutch
1 entries- emigreren verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Esperanto
1 entries- elmigri verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Finnish
2 entries- emigroitua verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- muuttaa maasta verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
French
1 entries- émigrer verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
German
2 entries- auswandern verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- emigrieren verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Hindi
1 entries- उत्प्रवास verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Hungarian
2 entries- emigrál verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- kivándorol verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Ido
1 entries- emigrar verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Italian
1 entries- emigrare verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Japanese
2 entries- 移住する verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- 移民する verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Māori
1 entries- maunu verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Portuguese
1 entries- emigrar verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Russian
3 entries- пересели́ться verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- переселя́ться verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- эмигри́ровать verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Spanish
1 entries- emigrar verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Swedish
2 entries- emigrera verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
- utvandra verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Welsh
1 entries- ymfudo verb (to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
They are going to emigrate to America.
Source: tatoeba (305482)
They are going to emigrate to the United States.
Source: tatoeba (1355915)
The Filipino woman wanted to learn English so that one day she could emigrate to the Anglosphere.
Source: tatoeba (1464240)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.