ÉMIGRÉ


Meaning of ÉMIGRÉ in English

noun

or emi·gré also emi·gre |emə̇|grā, |ām-, -mē|- ; or emi·gree “, |emə|grē

( -s )

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: French émigré (masculine) & émigrée (feminine), from past participle of émigrer to emigrate, from Latin emigrare

: emigrant ; especially : a person forced to emigrate (as from France or Russia during their revolutions or from Germany under the Nazis) by political or other circumstances beyond his control

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