emigre
pronunciation
How to pronounce emigre in British English:
UK [ˈemɪgreɪ]
How to pronounce emigre in American English:
US ['emɪgre]
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- Noun:
- someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Word Origin
- emigre (n.)
- 1792, from French émigré "an emigrant," noun use of past participle of émigrer "emigrate" (18c.), from Latin emigrare "depart from a place" (see emigration). Originally used of royalist refugees from the French Revolution; extended 1920s to refugees from the Russian Revolution, then generally to political exiles. ÉMIGRÉS Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads. [Flaubert, "Dictionary of Received Ideas"]
Example
- 1. But from the perspective of emigre tibetan politics and indian security policy the campaign against the karmapa is not very surprising .
- 2. A brilliant outsider , he established a modest literary reputation across the europe of the 1920s and 1930s , supporting himself through lessons in english and tennis and crossword puzzles composed for a russian emigre newspaper .
- 3. So we 've brought him along today to see how even these emigre russian aristocrats and bourgeois can still scrape a living !
- 4. Similar to many " third wave " emigre writers , dovlatov could not have his works published in his home country when he was alive but regained readers from his home country after the soviet union collapsed and the immigration literature became popular .