expatriate

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

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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.

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

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

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Related Words for expatriate

exile, refugee, migrant, emigrant, evacuee, outcast, deportee, oust, relegate, ostracize, proscribe, expel, displace, deport, transport, banish, expellee, expulse

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Contemporary Examples of 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
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
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
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

Historical Examples of expatriate

To expatriate is purely oriental, quite unknown to the modern world.
Tancred
Benjamin Disraeli
But if you wish to make a race endure, rely upon it you should expatriate them.
Tancred
Benjamin Disraeli
One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
James Champlin Fernald
We were advised to expatriate ourselves, to banish ourselves.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)
Various
I have no patience with those people who expatriate themselves.
The Memoirs of an American Citizen
Robert Herrick

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 Formsexpatriation, noun

Word Origin for expatriate

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

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Word Origin and History for expatriate

1768, from French expatrier "banish" (14c.), from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + patrie "native land," from Latin patria "one's native country," from pater (genitive patris) "father" (cf. patriot). Related: Expatriated; expatriating. The noun is from 1818, "one who has been banished;" main modern sense of "one who chooses to live abroad" is 1902.