word | expatriate |
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definition | A person who has moved to a foreign land. |
eg_sentence | As he got to know his fellow expatriates in Morocco, he found himself wondering what had led each of them to leave America. |
explanation | Expatriate combines the prefix ex-, “out of” or “away from,” with the Latin patria, “fatherland.” A famous colony of expatriates was the group of writers and artists who gathered in Paris between the two world wars, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. Unlike an exile or an emigrant, an expatriate's residence abroad is usually voluntary and extended but not permanent, and expatriates—often called expats—generally keep their original national identity and eventually end their self-imposed exiles by repatriating themselves |
IPA | ɛkˈspeɪtriˌeɪt |
Tags: mwvb::unit:20, mwvb::unit:20:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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