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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They range from long-time expats to émigrés who have fast-tracked citizenship applications to new countries since the invasion began in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
He is the American-born son of Soviet Jewish émigrés, a former employee of The New York Times, and now, essentially, a hostage of the Russian state.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
In time, these émigrés to the new continent would redraw its maps.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
