émigré
noun
an emigrant, especially a person who flees from their native land because of political conditions.
émigrés
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pluralof émigré.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I was born in the United States, but my parents are Soviet émigrés and I grew up bilingual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Or do these émigrés personify a loss of faith in America’s future and way of life?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Salome Zourabichvili was born in France in 1952 into a prominent family of Georgian émigrés.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
There have been many films about émigrés, in genres ranging from comedies to dramas to documentaries ever since Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short, "The Immigrant."
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2023
In time, these émigrés to the new continent would redraw its maps.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
