expatriate
[verb eks-pey-tree-eyt or, esp. British, -pa-tree-; adjective, noun eks-pey-tree-it, -eyt or, esp. British, -pa-tree-]
- 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.
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- to become an expatriate: He expatriated from his homeland.
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- expatriated; exiled.
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- an expatriated person: Many American writers were living as expatriates in Paris.
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Origin of expatriate
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Contemporary Examples
Yet for all his enthusiasm for the American film industry, he remained forever an expatriate.
Alex Aciman on two new memoirs of life in Greece and Italy and the tricks that expatriate life can play.
The stories of girls overseas have not often been part of the canon of American expatriate writing, Kaplan points out.
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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.
Historical Examples
To expatriate is purely oriental, quite unknown to the modern world.
TancredBenjamin Disraeli
But if you wish to make a race endure, rely upon it you should expatriate them.
TancredBenjamin Disraeli
One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others.
English Synonyms and AntonymsJames Champlin Fernald
We were advised to expatriate ourselves, to banish ourselves.
I have no patience with those people who expatriate themselves.
The Memoirs of an American CitizenRobert Herrick
expatriate
- resident in a foreign country
- exiled or banished from one's native countryan expatriate American
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- a person who lives in a foreign country
- an exile; expatriate person
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- to exile (oneself) from one's native country or cause (another) to go into exile
- to deprive (oneself or another) of citizenship
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Word Origin
C18: from Medieval Latin expatriāre, from Latin ex- 1 + patria native land
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Word Origin and History for expatriate
v.
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.
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