'Expatriate' definitions:
Definition of 'expatriate'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates" [syn: exile, expatriate, expat]
verb
Expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions" [syn: expatriate, deport, exile] [ant: repatriate]
verb
Move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
Definition of 'Expatriate'
From: GCIDE
- Expatriate \Ex*pa"tri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expatriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expatriating.] [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot.]
- 1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. [1913 Webster]
- The expatriated landed interest of France. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expatriate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- ban,
- banish,
- blackball,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- castaway,
- chuck,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- cut,
- cut out,
- declasse,
- deport,
- derelict,
- disfellowship,
- displace,
- displaced person,
- dispose of,
- DP,
- eject,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- emigrant,
- emigrate,
- emigre,
- eradicate,
- evacue,
- evacuee,
- evictee,
- exclude,
- excommunicate,
- exile,
- expel,
- expellee,
- extradite,
- flit,
- fugitate,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- go from home,
- immigrant,
- immigrate,
- in-migrant,
- in-migrate,
- intermigrate,
- Ishmael,
- lag,
- leave home,
- leave the country,
- leper,
- liquidate,
- migrant,
- migrate,
- migrator,
- migratory worker,
- ostracize,
- oust,
- out-migrant,
- out-migrate,
- outcast,
- outcast of society,
- outcaste,
- outlaw,
- pariah,
- persona non grata,
- pick out,
- proscribe,
- purge,
- relegate,
- remigrate,
- remove,
- root out,
- root up,
- run,
- rusticate,
- send away,
- send down,
- send to Coventry,
- snub,
- social outcast,
- spurn,
- stateless person,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- swarm,
- take wing,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- thrust out,
- transmigrate,
- transport,
- trek,
- trekker,
- unacceptable person,
- undesirable,
- untouchable,
- weed out,
- wetback