Meanings
present singular third person emigrates · participle present emigrating · participle past emigrated · past emigrated
- intransitiveTo leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, 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, →OCLC2 more examples
They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
1872, John Henry Newman, Historical SketchesHer family was planning to emigrate to the U.S. from Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and couldn't afford school fees.
2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Catalan emigrar
- emigrarto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Chinese Mandarin 移民, 移居
- 移民 (yímín)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- 移居 (yíjū)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Czech emigrovat
- emigrovatto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Danish emigrere, udvandre
- emigrereto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- udvandreto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Dutch emigreren
- emigrerento leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Esperanto elmigri
- elmigrito leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Finnish muuttaa maasta, emigroitua
- muuttaa maastato leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- emigroituato leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
French émigrer
- émigrerto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
German auswandern, emigrieren
- auswandernto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- emigrierento leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Hindi उत्प्रवास
- उत्प्रवास (utpravās)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Hungarian emigrál, kivándorol
- emigrálto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- kivándorolto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Italian emigrare
- emigrareto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Japanese 移住する, 移民する
- 移住する (ijū suru)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- 移民する (imin suru)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Māori maunu
- maunuto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Polish emigrować
- emigrowaćto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Portuguese emigrar
- emigrarto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Russian эмигри́ровать, переселя́ться
- эмигри́ровать (emigrírovatʹ)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- переселя́ться (pereseljátʹsja)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- пересели́ться (pereselítʹsja)to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Spanish emigrar
- emigrarto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Swedish emigrera, utvandra
- emigrerato leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
- utvandrato leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
Welsh ymfudo
- ymfudoto leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere
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Cite this entry
emigrate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emigrate
“emigrate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emigrate. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emigrate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emigrate.
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