EMIGRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emigrate mean? 

• EMIGRATE (verb)
  The verb EMIGRATE has 1 sense:

1. leave one's country of residence for a new one

  Familiarity information: EMIGRATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMIGRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they emigrate    ... he / she / it emigrates   
Past simple: emigrated   
Past participle: emigrated   
-ing form: emigrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leave one's country of residence for a new one

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period

Hypernyms (to "emigrate" is one way to...):

migrate; transmigrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)

"Emigrate" entails doing...:

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "emigrate"):

expatriate (move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

immigrate (come into a new country and change residency)

Derivation:

emigrant (someone who leaves one country to settle in another)

emigration (migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another))

 Context examples 

My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done very well.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why, what a thing it would be for yourselves and your family, Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, if you were to emigrate now.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“They will emigrate together, aunt,” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)