Entry Word: émigré

Function: noun

Meaning:

also emigré

1 a person forced to emigrate for political reasons <the revolution resulted in a flood of émigrés into neighboring countries>

Synonyms deportee, evacuee, exile, 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> — see emigrant