Definition of EMIGRATED

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Migrate, emigrate, and immigrate are all about being on the move. All those terms come from the Latin word migrare, which means "to move from one place to another." Emigrate and immigrate sound alike, and it is true that both involve leaving one location and entering another. The subtle difference between them lies in point of view: emigrate stresses leaving the original place, while immigrate focuses on entering the new one. You won't have trouble keeping them straight if you remember that the prefix e- means "away," as in eject, and the prefix im- or in- means "into," as in inject.

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The Joy Luck Club Based on the best-selling novel by Amy Tan, the movie follows a group of four women (i.e. The Joy Luck Club) who emigrated from China to America, and their daughters. — Seventeen, "20 Mother's Day Movies to Watch With Your Mom," 11 Apr. 2019 Widespread shortages of food and medicine have prompted three million Venezuelans to emigrate, mostly on foot. — Bradley Olson, WSJ, "U.S. Backing of Venezuela Opposition Government Risks Putting State’s Oil Money in Limbo," 25 Jan. 2019 Samson Borgelin, who emigrated to the U.S. from Haiti in 1981, became a citizen in the late 1990s and is now a North Lauderdale city commissioner, said Trump’s campaigning in Little Haiti helped him. — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Haitian-American voters could turn on Trump," 5 July 2018 Scores have emigrated to Hungary and western Europe, driven in part by Ukraine’s economic crisis and facilitated by the possibility of acquiring dual Hungarian citizenship, which comes with a European Union passport. — Pablo Gorondi, The Seattle Times, "Ukraine’s Hungarian minority threatened by new education law," 14 Nov. 2018 He was born in London in 1944, and when Springer was 5 his family emigrated to New York City. — Kyle Swenson, chicagotribune.com, "Jerry Springer changed TV forever. After 27 seasons, his daytime talk circus may be over.," 20 June 2018 Her great grandfather, Anselmo Minato, emigrated from the mountainous northern Italian town of Asolo in 1916. — John Walters, Newsweek, "Kelsey Minato Is the Best Service Academy 'Baller Since David Robinson," 27 Jan. 2016 She was descended from the Moroneys of County Clare in Ireland, several of whom had emigrated to America. — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, "Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer long wondered if he's related to JFK; at 72, he learned the truth," 12 May 2018 Another letter came from a man in Europe who had emigrated seven years ago because Brazil was a dead end. — Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, "Brazil’s Primal Scream," 6 Jan. 2019

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