# emigrate

Pronunciation: say "EM-i-grayt" /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/

## Verb

1. To move out of the country you live in, especially your country of birth, and settle somewhere else.
   - Simple: To leave the country where you live, often your home country, to live somewhere else.
   - _She plans to emigrate from Ireland once she finishes her medical training._
   - _After years of drought, thousands of farming families emigrated to Argentina in search of land._

## Origin

From Latin emigratus, the perfect passive participle of emigro ("to move away, remove, depart from a place"), from ex- ("out of, from") + migro ("to move, remove, depart").

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