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expatriate

Syllables: ex·pa·tri·ate/ɛksˈpætɹi.ɪt/

expatriate adjective: living outside of one's own country.

Adjective

expatriate (not comparable)

  1. Living outside of one's own country.
    • an expatriate rebel force

Noun

expatriate (plural expatriates)

  1. One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
  2. One who has been banished from one's own country.
    Synonyms:
    exile

Verb

IPA/ɛksˈpætɹɪ.eɪt/

expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriating, simple past and past participle expatriated)

  1. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  2. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
  3. (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

expatriate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

expatriate in Hindi

living outside of one's own country
प्रवासी pravāsī
person living outside own country
प्रवासी pravāsī

expatriate in Tamil

வெளிநாட்டவர்

expatriate in Urdu

ملک بدر, ملک بدر کرنا

expatriate in Bengali

প্রবাসী
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expatriate in Malayalam
പ്രവാസി, അന്യനാട്ടിൽ പോയി താമസിക്കുന്നയാൾ, വിദേശത്തു കുടിയേറിപ്പാർക്കുന്നവൻ, അന്യദിക്കിൽ ചെന്നുതാമസിക്കുന്നവൻ
expatriate in Kannada
ಪರದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸು, ಗಡೀಪಾರು ಆಗು, ದೇಶಭ್ರಷ್ಟನನ್ನಾಗಿಸು, ದೇಶದಿಂದ ಹೊರಹಾಕು
expatriate in Arabic
مَنْفِيّ manfiyy, مُغْتَرِب muḡtarib
expatriate in Malay
ekspatriat
expatriate in Indonesian
ekspatriat

Examples of expatriate in a sentence

  • In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.
  • And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.
  • He is the last expatriate senior official left in the administration, apart from the Attorney General, Jeremy Mathews.

All 18 example sentences with expatriate

Synonyms of expatriate

All synonyms of expatriate

Forms of expatriate

Noun
pluralexpatriates
Verb
third-person singular presentexpatriates
present participleexpatriating
past participleexpatriated
pastexpatriated

Plural of expatriate: expatriates

Origin of expatriate

The verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from Medieval Latin expatriātus, perfect passive participle of expatriō (“to banish”) (see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3)), from Latin ex- (“out of”) + patria (“native land”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); possibly after French expatrier and expatrié.

Words formed from expatriate

Questions about expatriate

What does expatriate mean?
Expatriate means living outside of one's own country.
What is expatriate in Hindi?
Expatriate in Hindi is प्रवासी (pravāsī). See Expatriate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is expatriate?
Expatriate can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce expatriate?
Expatriate is pronounced /ɛksˈpætɹi.ɪt/.

Words near expatriate in the dictionary

  1. expatiations
  2. expatiative
  3. expatiator
  4. expatiators
  5. expatiatory
  6. expatriate
  7. expatriated
  8. expatriates
  9. expatriating
  10. expatriation
  11. expatriations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: expatriate (page history and authors); expatriate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expatriate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Expatriate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expatriate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); expatriate (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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