Sunday, July 11, 2010

Definition II: Expatriate

Expatriate

-noun
  1. An exile: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates"
  2. One who lives outside one’s own country;
  3. One who has been banished from one’s own country; 
  4. A person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
  5. Someone who lives outside their home country for work or lifestyle purposes.
-verbs
  1. To expel from a country;
  2. To move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
  3. To banish (a person) from his or her native country;
  4. To drive or force (a person) from his own country;
  5. To make an exile of;
  6. To withdraw from (oneself) from residence and or allegiance in ones native country;
  7. To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born.

-synonyms

  1. banish, deport, displace, exile, expel, expulse, ostracize, oust, proscribe, relegate, transport 
  2. departer, deportee, displaced person, emigrant, evacuee, exile, expellee, migrant, outcast, refugee, émigré
-origins
  1. 1768, from French expatrier "banish," from ex- "out of" + patrie "native land,
  2. From L. patria "one's native country," from pater (gen. patris) "father."
  3. The noun is from 1818, "one who has been banished;"
  4. Main modern sense of "one who chooses to live abroad" is 1902.

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