Emigrate vs Immigrate - What's the difference?
emigrate | immigrate | Antonyms |
To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
* Macaulay
* J. H. Newman
To move into a country from another one to stay permanently.
Immigrate is a antonym of emigrate.
Immigrate is a related term of emigrate.
In intransitive terms the difference between emigrate and immigrate
is that emigrate is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere while immigrate is to move into a country from another one to stay permanently.emigrate
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(emigrat)- Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
- They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.