verb
emigrate
EH-mihg-rayt
verb
1
To leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
"Her grandparents emigrated from Poland in the 1950s."
"Thousands emigrated during the economic crisis."
How to Use Emigrate
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishTo move away from your home country to live somewhere else permanently.
Common mistake
Emigrate is used with "from" your home country; immigrate is used with "to" the new country — they describe the same move from different viewpoints.
Easily confused with
immigrate
Common pairings
emigrate from
emigrate to another country
Word Forms
emigrated past tense, emigrates singular
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Etymology
From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare, "to move away," from ex- ("out of") plus migrare ("to move, depart").