émigré

[ em-i-grey; French ey-mee-grey ]
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noun,plural é·mi·grés [em-i-greyz; French ey-mee-grey]. /ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪz; French eɪ miˈgreɪ/.
  1. an emigrant, especially a person who flees from their native land because of political conditions.

  2. a person who fled from France because of opposition to or fear of the revolution that began in 1789.

Origin of émigré

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First recorded in 1785–95; from French: noun use of past participle of émigrer, from Latin ēmīgrāre to emigrate

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How to use émigré in a sentence

  • The Second, regarding them as agitators, resolved to proceed against them as against the émigrés.

    Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
  • The émigrés did not trust him, and assigned him no active part in the invasion of the following year.

    Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
  • He proposed that the prerogative should be enlarged, the princes indemnified, the émigrés permitted to return.

    Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
  • The purpose of the allied sovereigns, and of the émigrés who prompted them, stood confessed.

    Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

British Dictionary definitions for émigré

émigré

/ (ˈɛmɪˌɡreɪ, French emiɡre) /


noun
  1. an emigrant, esp one forced to leave his native country for political reasons

Origin of émigré

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C18: from French, from émigrer to emigrate

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