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emigration

emigration noun: the act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.

Noun

emigration (countable and uncountable, plural emigrations)

  1. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
    Synonyms:
    outmigration
  2. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively.
    • the Irish emigration

emigration meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

emigration in Hindi

act of emigrating
उत्प्रवास utpravās
body of emigrants; emigrants collectively
उत्प्रवासी utpravāsī

emigration in Tamil

குடியகல்வு, குடி பெயர்ச்சி, குடி பெயர்வு, குடியகற்சி குடிப்பெயர்ச்சி, குடியேற்றம்

emigration in Urdu

act of emigrating
ہِجْرَت hijrat

emigration in Bengali

act of emigrating
হিজরত hijrot
body of emigrants; emigrants collectively
মুহাজিরগণ muhajirgon
More languagesFewer languages
emigration in Malayalam
പരദേശക്കുടിയേറ്റം, വിദേശഗമനം
emigration in Kannada
ವಲಸೆ ಹೋಗುವಿಕೆ, ಬೇರೆಡೆ ಹೋಗಿ ನೆಲಸುವುದು
emigration in Pashto
کډوالي kaḍwālí, مهاجرت mohājerát
emigration in Tagalog
luwasbayan
emigration in Arabic
هِجْرَة hijra, نُزُوح nuzūḥ
emigration in Malay
emigrasi, penghijrahan
emigration in Indonesian
emigrasi, perantauan
emigration in Thai
การอพยพ gaan-òp-pá-yóp
emigration in Vietnamese
di dân

Examples of emigration in a sentence

  • Many Easterners went into so-called “inner emigration”, withdrawing from a system whose ideological impulse had long faded.
  • Rogaliki, or rugelach, spread worldwide with the emigration and refugee waves of Jewish bakers from Poland in the last century.
  • The population of each coterie constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration.

All 10 example sentences with emigration

Synonyms of emigration

Antonyms

Forms of emigration

pluralemigrations

Plural of emigration: emigrations

Origin of emigration

From Late Latin stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Words formed from emigration

Words that rhyme with emigration

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Questions about emigration

What does emigration mean?
Emigration means the act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
What is emigration in Hindi?
Emigration in Hindi is उत्प्रवास (utpravās), उत्प्रवासी (utpravāsī). See Emigration meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is emigration?
Emigration is a noun.
What is the plural of emigration?
The plural of emigration is emigrations.

Words near emigration in the dictionary

  1. emigrants
  2. emigrate
  3. emigrated
  4. emigrates
  5. emigrating
  6. emigration
  7. emigrational
  8. emigrationist
  9. emigrationists
  10. emigrations
  11. emigrative

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: emigration (page history and authors); emigration (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emigration (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emigration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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