emigrate
verb /ˈemɪɡreɪt/
/ˈemɪɡreɪt/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they emigrate | /ˈemɪɡreɪt/ /ˈemɪɡreɪt/ |
| he / she / it emigrates | /ˈemɪɡreɪts/ /ˈemɪɡreɪts/ |
| past simple emigrated | /ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/ /ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle emigrated | /ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/ /ˈemɪɡreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form emigrating | /ˈemɪɡreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈemɪɡreɪtɪŋ/ |
- emigrate (from…) (to…) to leave your own country to go and live permanently in another country
- The family left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and emigrated to America.
- Many people who emigrated experienced poverty and racism when they arrived.
- My grandparents emigrated from Vietnam to the US in the 1980s.
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Latin emigrat- ‘emigrated’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’.