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é·mi·gré

 (ĕm′ĭ-grā′)
n.
One who has left a native country, especially for political reasons.

[French, from past participle of émigrer, to emigrate, from Latin ēmigrāre; see emigrate.]
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émigré

(ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪ; French emiɡre)
n
(Sociology) an emigrant, esp one forced to leave his native country for political reasons
[C18: from French, from émigrer to emigrate]
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é•mi•gré

(ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪ, ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ)

n.
an emigrant, esp. a person who flees a native land because of political conditions.
[1785–95; < French: n. use of past participle of émigrer < Latin ēmīgrāre to emigrate]
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Emigre

A noble fleeing the revolution; they forfeited their estates and were liable to summary execution if they returned.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.emigre - someone who leaves one country to settle in anotheremigre - someone who leaves one country to settle in another
migrant, migrator - traveler who moves from one region or country to another
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émigré

noun
1. One forced to emigrate, usually for political reasons:
2. A person coming from another country or into a new community:
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Translations

émigré

émigrée [ˈemɪgreɪ] Nemigrado/a m/f
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émigré

[ˈɛmɪgreɪ] némigré(e) m/f
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émigré

nEmigrant(in) m(f)
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émigré

[ˈɛmɪˌgreɪ] n (frm) → esule m
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References in classic literature ?
How many noble emigres had this horrid revolution plunged in poverty!
This event made a sensation; it was used later to refute the sarcasms of the "Constitutionnel," on the method employed by some emigres in paying their debts.
Turkey welcomed them regardless of the religious heritage of these emigres or that of their spouses.
This disparity and the issues of identity inherent in its causes, both in regard to the secular or assimilationist desires of the emigres and the populist, anticonservative politics of the Mexican artists, reinforces the importance of this document.
The State Department said it cannot meet an agreed-upon quota of 20,000 visas for Cuban emigres this year because the Castro regime is obstructing its consular work in Havana.
When the Jewish emigres who became the Maghribi traders began arriving, Fatimid terrain consisted of present-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.
In projecting the emigres as the true representatives of German culture, they not only influenced powerful elites in the USA and Britain but also provided important psychological and financial support for the emigres themselves.
Because so many of its officer corps were educated men, the Harvard Regiment left behind numerous diaries, memoirs, and letters, which form a solid base of source material for this exhaustive examination of many different personalities that comprised the unit, from abolitionists to radical German emigres that had escaped the failed revolution of 1848 to the sons of prominent Republicans and more.
After she leaves home, she is employed by the chaotic Mitwisser family, German emigres living in the no man's land of the Bronx.
It also resurrects examples by almost forgotten emigres like Rudolf Frankel and Fritz Ruhemann, and factories for continental companies like Roche by the Swiss master Rudolf Salvisberg, and Bata by the Czech Vladimir Karfik.
An exporter of human capital, Lebanon nevertheless continued to be a magnet for its own emigres (mughtaribeen) who often returned to Lebanon, bringing back transnational wealth as well as a wealth of transnational ideas.