émigrénoun [ C ]
uk/ˈem.ɪ.ɡreɪ/us/ˈem.ɪ.ɡreɪ/someone who has had to leave their country permanently, usually for political reasons
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People who live or settle somewhere
- asylum seeker
- brain drain
- bum
- city slicker
- cohabitant
- cottager
- foreign-returned
- frontiersman
- guest worker
- illegal alien
- illegal immigrant
- lodger
- outflow
- overspill
- resident
- roomer
- settler
- son
- squatter
- welcome wagon
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Examples from literature
- A French émigré of the old school, with the dainty, gallant ways of the ancien régime, he still clung to the dress of his earlier days, and wore a veritable queue, silk stockings and buckled shoes.
- But it is not given to all émigré's to become great capitalists or great leaders.
- He is an émigré.
- This gentleman, a French émigré, who found a refuge in Canada, had thrown himself with great devotion into the rough life of a missionary among the scattered peoples, Canadians and Indians alike, of his remote parish.