expatriate :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (1)

n. voluntarily absent from home or country

Verbs (2)

v. expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"

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Adjectives (0)

Fuzzynyms (29)

runaway, fugitive

n. someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

castaway, outcast, pariah

n. a person who is rejected (from society or home)

pilgrim, palmer

n. someone who journeys in foreign lands

emigrant, emigre, outgoer, émigré

n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another

n. a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

settler, colonist

n. a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country

n. belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India

bar, relegate, banish

v. expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"

turn out, expel, eject, exclude, throw out, boot out, kick out, turf out, chuck out

v. put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom"

force out, evict

v. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"

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Antonyms (2)

repatriate, allow back

v. admit back into the country

expatriate

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