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émigré en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪ/
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Etymology

Borrowed from French émigré.

Meanings

1. (historical) A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
   • Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith […] 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 516:
2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
   • In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré. 2014 February 20, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books:
   • His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period. 2007 July 23, “A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:
   • Slava Tsukerman is a Soviet émigré who has lived in New York City since 1976, apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land. 1983 July 22, Janet Maslin, “‘Liquid Sky,’ High Fashion and a U.F.O.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • In retrospect, Sǒ's unqualified championship of the elective principle may seem somewhat naive. At the time, however, he believed his conviction was vindicated by the example of the self-governing Korean émigré settlements in Russian Manchuria (Siberia). After visiting them and observing their daily activities, British geographer Isabella B. Bishop had praised their contented lives and attributed this situation to the good leadership of their elected headmen. 1991, Vipan Chandra, “Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late Nineteenth-Century Developments”, in William Shaw, editor, Human Rights in Korea: Historical and Policy Perspectives, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
   • […]the capital of a country that, like its Communist (and later post-Communist) sisters to the east, had long been known for turning its younger residents into aspiring émigrés. 2008 September 20, David Amsden, “The Dubliners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World. 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving

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emigrant · émigrée · immigrant · expatriate · refugee · emigration