The difference between Expatriate and Émigré

When used as nouns, expatriate means one who has been banished from their own country, whereas émigré means a french person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the french revolution.


Expatriate is also verb with the meaning: to banish.

Expatriate is also adjective with the meaning: living outside of one's own country.

check bellow for the other definitions of Expatriate and Émigré

  1. Expatriate as an adjective:

    Living outside of one's own country.

    Examples:

    "an expatriate rebel force"

  1. Expatriate as a noun:

    One who lives outside their own country. One who has been banished from their own country.

  1. Expatriate as a verb (transitive):

    To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

  2. Expatriate as a verb (intransitive):

    To withdraw from one's native country.

  3. Expatriate as a verb (intransitive):

    To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

  1. Émigré as a noun:

    A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.

  2. Émigré as a noun:

    An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.

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