English

Alternative forms

• emigre, émigre, emigré

Noun

émigré ‎(plural émigrés)

1. A Frenchman who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the French Revolution.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 516:

     Any émigré who had returned to France without obtaining government consent was required to leave France forthwith [...].

2. An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
   • 2007, Eve LaPlante, The opposite of Thanksgiving:

     In 1621 in Plymouth, émigré English Calvinists struggled to make their way in the harsh climate of this New World.

   • 2007, “A Free Life,” Publishers Weekly, 23 Jul 2007:

     His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.

   • 2014, James Wood, On Not Going Home London Review of Books, 20 Feb 2014:

     In that essay, Said distinguishes between exile, refugee, expatriate and émigré.

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigrée

See also

• expatriate
• immigrant
• refugee

Anagrams

• regime, régime

French

Noun

émigré m ‎(plural émigrés, feminine émigrée)

1. emigrant

Verb

émigré m ‎(feminine singular émigrée, masculine plural émigrés, feminine plural émigrées)

1. past participle of émigrer

Anagrams

• régime, rémige