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Definition of Expatriate
1. Verb. Expel from a country. "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"
Generic synonyms: Expel, Kick Out, Throw Out
Derivative terms: Deportation, Deportation, Deportee, Exile, Exile, Expatriation
Antonyms: Repatriate
2. Noun. A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country. "American expatriates"
Generic synonyms: Absentee
Specialized synonyms: Refugee, Remittance Man
Language type: Britain
3. Verb. Move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad.
Definition of Expatriate
1. v. t. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
Definition of Expatriate
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates. ¹
2. Noun. One who lives outside one’s own country. ¹
3. Noun. One who has been banished from one’s own country. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country. ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expatriate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expatriate
Literary usage of Expatriate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch (1806)
"ted States could not 'expatriate himself. That learned Fv; the opinion of ...
of the government that our own citizens should also "expatriate themselves. ..."
2. Literature and Insurgency: Ten Studies in Racial Evolution: Mark Twain by John Curtis Underwood (1914)
"It is true that, with his u*ual indirection, he puts his own words into the letter
of one Bostonian and expatriate temporarily on this -ide of the Atlantic, ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"expatriate, va Banish, exile, ostracize, proscribe, expel ( from one's country).
... expatriate one's self. Break the ties of coun- tiy, renounce one's ..."
4. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the by Theodore Parker (1853)
"... of the public lands, to expatriate the free colored people from her soil; that
he would support the Fugitive Slave Bill, with all its amendments, ..."
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