ex·pa·tri·ate
ek-ˈspā-trē-ˌāt
expatriated; expatriating
2
: to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country
: to leave one's native country to live elsewhere
also
: to renounce allegiance to one's native country
ex·pa·tri·ate
ek-ˈspā-trē-ət
-trē-ˌāt
: living in a foreign land
ex·pa·tri·ate
ek-ˈspā-trē-ət
-trē-ˌāt
: a person who lives in a foreign country
Hemingway himself in The Sun Also Rises, 1926, had given the picture of the dislocated life of young English and American expatriates in the bars of Paris, the "lost generation," as Gertrude Stein defined them.—
Robert Penn Warren
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