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noun, a person who lives in a foreign country
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expatriate
- 1) adjective, resident in a foreign country
- 2) adjective, exiled or banished from one's native country
- 3) noun, a person who lives in a foreign country
- 4) noun, an exile; expatriate person
- 5) verb, to exile (oneself) from one's native country or cause (another) to go into exile
- 6) verb, to deprive (oneself or another) of citizenship
Etymology
C18: from Medieval Latin expatriāre, from Latin ex-1 + patria native land
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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