expatriate. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

expatriate

SYLLABICATION:	ex·pa·tri·ate
PRONUNCIATION:	k-sptr-t
VERB:	Inflected forms: ex·pa·tri·at·ed, ex·pa·tri·at·ing, ex·pa·tri·ates
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To send into exile. See synonyms at banish. 2. To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To give up residence in one's homeland. 2. To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.
NOUN:	(-t, -t)1. One who has taken up residence in a foreign country. 2. One who has renounced one's native land.
ADJECTIVE:	(-t, -t) Residing in a foreign country; expatriated: “She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome” (Janet H. Murray, New York Times Book Review December 29, 1991).
ETYMOLOGY:	Medieval Latin expatrire, expatrit- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin patria, native land (from patrius, paternal, from pater, father; see pter- in Appendix I).
OTHER FORMS:	ex·patri·ation —NOUN


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