Expatriate

Pronunciation

• Adjective and noun: IPA: /É›ksˈpeɪ.tɹi.ɪt/
• Verb: IPA: /É›ksˈpeɪ.tɹiËŒeɪt/
• Hyphenation: ex + pa + tri + ate

Origin

From French expatrier, from ex- ("out of") + patrie ("native land")

Full definition of expatriate

Adjective

1. Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
• an expatriate mailing list

Noun

1. One who lives outside one’s own country.
2. One who has been banished from one’s own country.

Synonyms

• émigré
• outland

Derived terms

• expat
• rex-pat, rex-patriate

Related terms

• inpatriate
• repatriate

Verb

1. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
2. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
3. (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Related terms

• repatriate
• patriate