different between patriate vs expatriate

English

Etymology

Canadian English. Back-formation from repatriate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?t?i.e?t/

Verb

patriate (third-person singular simple present patriates, present participle patriating, simple past and past participle patriated)

1. (Canada, transitive) To assume control of (a governmental power) from a former mother country.

   Canada moved to patriate its constitution from the United Kingdom in 1982.

Related terms

• patriation

English

Etymology

From French expatrier, from ex- (“out of”) + patrie (“native land”).

Pronunciation

• Adjective and noun: IPA^(key): /?ks?pæt???t/, /?ks?pe?.t?i.?t/
• Verb: IPA^(key): /?ks?pæt???e?t/, /?ks?pe?.t?i?e?t/
• Hyphenation: ex?pa?tri?ate

Adjective

expatriate (not comparable)

1. Living outside of one's own country.

Translations

Noun

expatriate (plural expatriates)

1. One who lives outside their own country.
   1. One who has been banished from their own country.

Synonyms

• émigré
• outland

Derived terms

• expat
• rex-pat, rex-patriate

Related terms

• inpatriate
• repatriate

Translations

See also

• emigrant
• exile
• immigrant

Verb

expatriate (third-person singular simple present expatriates, present participle expatriating, simple past and past participle expatriated)

1. (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
2. (intransitive) To withdraw from one’s native country.
3. (intransitive) To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

Related terms

• repatriate
• patriate

Translations