emigrate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
    • Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period

WordNet

Em"i*grate intransitive verb
Etymology
L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Emigrated ; present participle & verbal noun Emigrating
Definitions
  1. To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.
    Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay.
    They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.
Em"i*grate adjective
Definitions
  1. Migratory; roving. Obs.

Webster 1913