expatriate

Meaning

Adj

Living outside of one's own country.

Noun

1. One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
2. One who has been banished from one's own country.

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.

Synonyms

exile

banish

deport

expat

European

émigré

emigrant

expatriated

expel

emigrate

oust

cast off

outland

relegate

remove

white person

transport

ostracize

Translations

expatriado

expatrié

expatrier

expatriado

espatriato

émigré

expatriée

expatriar

εξορίζω

expatriar

Auswanderer

exil

deportar

مغترب

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛksˈpætɹi.ɪt/

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from Medieval Latin expatriātus, perfect passive participle of expatriō (“to banish”) (see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3)), from Latin ex- (“out of”) + patria (“native land”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); possibly after French expatrier and expatrié.