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Definition: Emigrate |
EmigrateVerb1. Leave one's country of residence for a new one; "Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emigrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Antonym: immigrate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Emigrate |
| English words defined with "emigrate": Demigrate ♦ Emigrated, Emigrating ♦ Redemptioner. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "emigrate": Demigrate. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | India | Citizens may emigrate without restriction. (references) |
Kuwait | Citizens are free to emigrate and to return. (references) | |
Ethiopia | The Feles Mora also seek to emigrate to Israel. (references) | |
Economic History | Cape Verde | Sparse rain and few natural resources historically have induced Cape Verdeans to emigrate. (references) |
Jamaica | About 20,000 Jamaicans emigrate to the United States each year; another 200,000 visit annually. (references) | |
Russia | The freedom to travel abroad and emigrate is respected although restrictions may apply to those who have had access to state secrets. (references) | |
Minorities | Bhutan | Local officials took advantage of the climate of repression to coerce ethnic Nepalese to sell their land below its fair value and to emigrate. (references) |
Women | Armenia | This may in part be accounted for by the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, which necessitates a high number of men in military service, and in part by the economic situation, which has caused men to emigrate in search of employment. (references) |
Worker Rights | Honduras | There also are reports that women who emigrate through Guatemala and Mexico have been found subject to sexual exploitation and debt bondage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Emigrate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 94.89% of the time. "Emigrate" is used about 137 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 94.89% | 130 | 28,019 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.92% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.46% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.73% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 137 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
emigrate | 47 |
emigrate to canada | 21 |
emigrate new zealand | 16 |
emigrate to australia | 9 |
emigrate to the usa | 4 |
emigrate spain | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "emigrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | emigreer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | emigroj, mërgoj, lë vendin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هاجر (immigrate, migrate), نزح (bail up, evacuate, migrate), أغترب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | емигрирам (go out, migrate), изселвам се, изселвам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 移居 (Emigrated, Emigrating, migrant, migrate, Migrated, Migrating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | emigrovat, vystìhovat se (go away, go out, move out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uittrekken (abstracting, destine, earmark, evulsion, extraction, lengthen, ordain, put off, take off), emigreren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | elmigri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مهاجرت کردن (Colonize, Migrate, Transplant), بکشوردیگررفتن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | siirtyä (be postponed, be transferred, immigrate, move, shift), muuttaa maasta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se réfugier, émigrer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | emigrearje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | auswandern (migrate, shift, to emigrate, trek, wandering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποδημώ (migrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | emigrál (migrate, to emigrate), kivándorol (expatriate, to emigrate, to expatriate oneself, to hive off, to migrate, transmigrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berboyong (move). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emigrare (migrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이주하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | arraghey magh (emigration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | utvandre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | emigrá. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emigrateay emigrante (emigrant, migrant). (various references) emigra (exile), face sã emigreze. (various references) эмигрировать (emigrated, emigrating). (various references) emigrirati. (various references) emigrar (migrate, trek), emigrarse. (various references) utvandra (migrate), emigrera. (various references) อพยพย้ายถิ่นฐาน. (various references) göçmek (Dent, die, fall in, go hence, immigrate, migrate, transmigrate, trek), göç etmek (expatriate oneself, immigrate, migrate, transmigrate). (various references) емігрувати, переселятися (flit, migrate, transmigrate, trek), переселяти (resettle, transmigrate). (various references) ymfudo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emigrate": emigrated, emigrates. (additional references) | |
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"Emigrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emigrante, emmigrate, exmigrate, imigrate, Lemagrut. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emigrate" (pronounced e"mugrā't) |
| 6 | -m u g r ā' t | immigrate. |
| 5 | -u g r ā' t | disintegrate, integrate, reintegrate. |
| 4 | -g r ā' t | denigrate, migrate. |
| 3 | -r ā' t | administrate, airfreight, arbitrate, aspirate, birthrate, calibrate, carbohydrate, castrate, celebrate, concentrate, consecrate, demonstrate, frustrate, gyrate, hydrate, illustrate, infiltrate, magistrate, narrate, nitrate, orchestrate, penetrate, perpetrate, serrate, substrate, vertebrate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: emerita, emirate, meatier, migrate, ragtime, reimage. | |
-2 letters: aigret, emigre, ergate, gaiter, gamete, gamier, imager, imaret, maigre, meager, meagre, metage, metier, mirage, reemit, regime, remate, reteam, retime, triage. | |
-3 letters: aerie, agree, aimer, ameer, arete, armet, eager, eagre, eater, egret, gamer, grate, great, greet, grime, image, irate, marge, mater, merge, merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, ragee, ramee, ramet, ramie, regma, remet, remit, retag, retem, retia, retie, tamer, targe, terai, terga, tiger, timer, tragi. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, airt, amie, amir, eger, emir, emit, gait, game, gate, gear, germ, geta, girt, gram, grat, gree, grim, grit, item, mage, magi, mair, mare, mart, mate, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, mire, mite, rage, ragi, rami, rate, ream, rete, rime, rite, tame, tare, team, tear, teem, term, tier, time, tire, tram, tree, trig, trim. | |
-5 letters: age, aim, air, ait, ami, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eme, era, ere, erg, eta, gae, gam, gar, gat, gee, gem, get, gie, git, ire, mae, mag, mar, mat, meg, met, mig, mir, rag, ram, rat, ree, reg, rei, rem, ret, ria, rig, rim, tae, tag, tam, tar, tea, tee, teg, tie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: emigrated, emigrates, germinate, hermitage, reteaming. | |
+2 letters: afterimage, antimerger, emarginate, ergotamine, germinated, germinates, gravimeter, hermitages, impregnate, magnetizer, marguerite, permeating, regimental, steamering. | |
+3 letters: abridgement, afterimages, argumentive, attempering, enumerating, ergotamines, ferrimagnet, fragmentize, geometrical, germinative, gradiometer, gravimeters, impregnated, impregnates, magnetizers, marguerites, microgamete, realignment, regimentals, remarketing, remastering, remediating. | |
+4 letters: abridgements, aeromagnetic, aggrievement, counterimage, demagnetizer, disagreement, ferrimagnets, fragmentized, fragmentizes, geometrician, gradiometers, gravimetries, hellgrammite, heterogamies, mastersinger, metallurgies, microgametes, premarketing, realignments, reassignment, reattempting, reestimating, remunerating, telegramming, ungerminated. | |
+5 letters: agglomerative, aggrievements, argumentative, counterimages, demagnetizers, dermatologies, disagreements, disparagement, epigrammatize, exterminating, ferrimagnetic, ferromagnetic, gastrectomies, geometrically, geometricians, hellgrammites, heterogametic, integumentary, interferogram, intermarriage, magnetometric, mastersingers, overmastering, premarketings, premeditating, reassignments, regimentation, spermatogenic, telemarketing, tragicomedies, vegetarianism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 69 67 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- .. --. .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01101001 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m i g r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0069 0067 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979757384678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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