émigré

• emigre, émigre, emigré

Borrowed from French émigré.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪ/

émigré (plural émigrés)

1. A French person who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 516:

     Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith […]

2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
   • 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:

     In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.

   • 2007 July 23, “A Free Life”, in Publishers Weekly:

     His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

   • 2014 February 20, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books:

     In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigrée

• expatriate
• immigrant
• refugee

• regime, régime

• IPA^(key): /e.mi.ɡʁe/

émigré m (plural émigrés, feminine émigrée)

1. emigrant

émigré (feminine émigrée, masculine plural émigrés, feminine plural émigrées)

1. past participle of émigrer

• “émigré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• régime, rémige