different between refugee vs expatriate

English

Etymology

From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge”), describing early French Protestants seeking refuge after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fj?d?i?/, /??fj??d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

refugee (plural refugees)

1. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country, i.e., a person seeking political asylum.
2. A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster, war, etc.
3. A person formally granted political or economic asylum by a country other than their home country.
4. (by extension) A person who flees one place or institution for another.
   • 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)

     Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.

Derived terms

• rapefugee
• reffo
• refugeehood
• refugitive

Translations

Verb

refugee (third-person singular simple present refugees, present participle refugeeing, simple past and past participle refugeed)

1. (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

See also

• asylum
• citizenshipless
• countryless
• economic asylum
• nationless
• political asylum
• refoulement
• refuge

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