expatriate

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

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

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for expatriated

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

Examples from the Web for expatriated

Historical Examples of expatriated

He had expatriated himself many years ago and was in Madagascar.
The Rough Road
William John Locke
Dante, expatriated, and exiled from wife and children, is not forgotten.
Genius in Sunshine and Shadow
Maturin Murray Ballou
I had forgotten the state of the bondman, the condition of the expatriated African.
Sheppard Lee, Vol. II (of 2)
Robert Montgomery Bird
But the nurse goes to Canada to marry her lover, expatriated for some cause.
A Little Girl in Old St. Louis
Amanda Minnie Douglas
"I see—one of the expatriated class," said Maclean, contemptuously.
Dorothy and other Italian Stories
Constance Fenimore Woolson

British Dictionary definitions for expatriated

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for expatriated

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.