émigré

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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

Related Words alien, fugitive; castoff, outcast, pariah; loyalist, patriot

2

one that leaves one place to settle in another <the émigrés had little understanding of what awaited them in America>

Synonyms émigré (also emigré), immigrant, incomer [chiefly British], in-migrant, migrant, out-migrant, settler

Related Words defector, deportee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, refugee, relocatee, repatriate; alien, foreigner, illegal, noncitizen, nonnative; colonist, newcomer, squatter; migrator, pilgrim, pioneer, trekker

Near Antonyms aborigine, native; citizen, habitant, inhabitant, national, resident

Antonyms nonimmigrant

Variants of ÉMIGRÉ

émigré also emigré