different between emigrate vs immigrate

English

Etymology

From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??m?.gr?t'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• Homophone: immigrate (accents with pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em?i?grate

Verb

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
   • 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches

     They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

Antonyms

• immigrate

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

Translations

Further reading

• emigrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• emigrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• emigrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Meritage, graemite

Italian

Adjective

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Noun

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

Verb

emigrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emigrare
2. second-person plural imperative of emigrare
3. feminine plural past participle of emigrato

Anagrams

• mergiate, regimate, remigate

Latin

Verb

?migr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?migr?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??m?.gr?t'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• Homophone: emigrate (pin-pen merger)

Etymology

From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

Verb

immigrate (third-person singular simple present immigrates, present participle immigrating, simple past and past participle immigrated)

1. (intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.

Antonyms

• emigrate

Derived terms

• immigrant
• immigration

Related terms

• migrate

Translations

Italian

Adjective

immigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of immigrato

Noun

immigrate f

1. plural of immigrata

Verb

immigrate

1. second-person plural present of immigrare
2. second-person plural imperative of immigrare
3. feminine plural past participle of immigrare

Latin

Verb

immigr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of immigr?