expatriate

[ verb eks-pey-tree-eyt or, esp. British, -pa-tree-; adjective, noun eks-pey-tree-it, -eyt or, esp. British, -pa-tree- ]

/ verb ɛksˈpeɪ triˌeɪt or, esp. British, -ˈpæ tri-; adjective, noun ɛksˈpeɪ tri ɪt, -ˌeɪt or, esp. British, -ˈpæ tri- /

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verb (used with object), ex·pa·tri·at·ed, ex·pa·tri·at·ing.

to banish (a person) from his or her native country.

to withdraw (oneself) from residence in one's native country.

to withdraw (oneself) from allegiance to one's country.

verb (used without object), ex·pa·tri·at·ed, ex·pa·tri·at·ing.

to become an expatriate: He expatriated from his homeland.

adjective

expatriated; exiled.

noun

an expatriated person: Many American writers were living as expatriates in Paris.

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Origin of expatriate

1760–70; < Medieval Latin expatriātus (past participle of expatriāre to banish), equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + patri(a) native land + -ātus -ate¹

OTHER WORDS FROM expatriate

ex·pa·tri·a·tion, nounself-ex·pa·tri·a·tion, noun

Words nearby expatriate

expansive bit, expansive classification, expansivity, expat, expatiate, expatriate, expatriation, expect, expectancy, expectant, expectation

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Example sentences from the Web for expatriate

Yet for all his enthusiasm for the American film industry, he remained forever an expatriate.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Alex Aciman on two new memoirs of life in Greece and Italy and the tricks that expatriate life can play.
Insider Outsiders: How to Write About Greece and Italy|Alexander Aciman|July 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The stories of girls overseas have not often been part of the canon of American expatriate writing, Kaplan points out.
Must Reads: Kennedy, Sontag and Paris, ‘A Partial History of Lost Causes,’ ‘City of Bohane,’ ‘Flatscreen’|Lauren Elkin, Mythili Rao, Drew Toal, Nicholas Mancusi|April 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Today, we look at print from the refreshed point of view of an expatriate who sees the old country with new eyes.
Daily Beast, Newsweek to Wed!|Tina Brown|November 11, 2010|DAILY BEAST

You can get up now and prepare to go with us and expatriate your sins.'
Options|O. Henry
I have no patience with those people who expatriate themselves.
The Memoirs of an American Citizen|Robert Herrick
By and by he sent me to America to school; for he still loved his country and was not that fault-finding scold, the expatriate.
The Lure of the Mask|Harold MacGrath
A clergyman was found willing to expatriate himself, but the income suggested was very small.
The Way We Live Now|Anthony Trollope
The vast majority of our people love their country too well and are too proud of it to be willing to expatriate themselves.
Our Hundred Days in Europe|Oliver Wendell Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for expatriate

expatriate

adjective (ɛksˈpætrɪɪt, -ˌeɪt)

resident in a foreign country

exiled or banished from one's native countryan expatriate American

noun (ɛksˈpætrɪɪt, -ˌeɪt)

a person who lives in a foreign country

an exile; expatriate person

verb (ɛksˈpætrɪˌeɪt) (tr)

to exile (oneself) from one's native country or cause (another) to go into exile

to deprive (oneself or another) of citizenship

Derived forms of expatriate

expatriation, noun

Word Origin for expatriate

C18: from Medieval Latin expatriāre, from Latin ex- 1 + patria native land

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expatriate

verb (used with object), ex·pa·tri·at·ed, ex·pa·tri·at·ing.