émigré


émigré

noun

Definition of ÉMIGRÉ

1
a person forced to emigrate for political reasons <the revolution resulted in a flood of émigrés into neighboring countries>
Synonyms deportee, evacuee, exile, expat [chiefly British], expatriate, refugee
2
one that leaves one place to settle in another <the émigrés had little understanding of what awaited them in America>
Synonyms émigré (also emigr{eacute}), immigrant, incomer [chiefly British], in-migrant, migrant, out-migrant, settler
Antonyms nonimmigrant

Variants of ÉMIGRÉ

émigré also emigré

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