émigré
/ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
noun
An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
Example Sentences
- "Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith […]"
- "Slava Tsukerman is a Soviet émigré who has lived in New York City since 1976, apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land."
- "In retrospect, Sǒ's unqualified championship of the elective principle may seem somewhat naive. At the time, however, he believed his conviction was vindicated by the example of the self-governing Korean émigré settlements in Russian Manchuria (Siberia). After visiting them and observing their daily activities, British geographer Isabella B. Bishop had praised their contented lives and attributed this situation to the good leadership of their elected headmen."
- "In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World."
- "His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period."
- "[…]the capital of a country that, like its Communist (and later post-Communist) sisters to the east, had long been known for turning its younger residents into aspiring émigrés."
Etymology
Borrowed from French émigré.