emigrate

From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

• enPR: ĕʹmĭ.grāt'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
• Homophone: immigrate (accents with pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em‧i‧grate

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
   • 1856 February​, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:

     Forced to emigrate in a body to America.

   • 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches

     They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

• immigrate

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

• emigrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• emigrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• emigrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Meritage, graemite

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

emigrate

1. inflection of emigrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• gremiate, megateri, mergiate, regimate, remigate

ēmigrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmigrō