The Indonesian government announced that it plans to repatriate 68 of its citizens who are crew members aboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, at the center of Japan’s coronavirus outbreak.
Source: tatoeba (8586198)
Repatriate
//ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt//
Synonyms for "repatriate" (13 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (4)
Related words (6)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
8 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- възвращенец noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- репатрирам verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Catalan
1 entries- repatriar verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 被遣返回国者 noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- 遣返 verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Czech
1 entries- repatriovat verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Dutch
1 entries- repatriëren verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Finnish
2 entries- kotiuttaa verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
- palauttaa kotimaahan verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
French
1 entries- rapatrier verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Greek
2 entries- επαναπατρισμένος noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- επαναπατρίζω verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Italian
1 entries- rimpatriato noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
Kazakh
2 entries- оралман noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- ورالمان noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
Macedonian
4 entries- по́вратник noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- повра́тничка noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- репатри́рец noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- репатри́рка noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
Polish
3 entries- repatriant noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- repatriantka noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- repatriować verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Russian
3 entries- репатриа́нт noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- репатриа́нтка noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- репатрии́ровать verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Slovak
2 entries- repatriant noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
- repatriantka noun (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
Spanish
1 entries- repatriar verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Swedish
2 entries- repatriera verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
- skicka tillbaka verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Ukrainian
1 entries- репатріюва́ти verb (to restore somebody to his or her own country)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Early in 1948, a rumor spread through camp that the Japanese prisoners of war were finally going to be allowed to go home, that a ship would be sent to repatriate us in the spring.
Source: wiktionary
A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.
Source: wiktionary
Greece repatriated an Athenian frieze from France, arranging for it to be sent back to Athens.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.