émigré

Alternative forms

• emigre, émigre, emigré

Origin

Borrowing from fr {{2}} émigré.

Full definition of émigré

Noun

1. A Frenchman who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
• 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 516:Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith ....
2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
• 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.
• 2007, “A Free Life,” Publishers Weekly, 23 Jul 2007:His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.
• 2014, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books, 20 Feb 2014:In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigrée

Anagrams

• regime, régime