Words / B2

EM-igr-ayt/ˈemɪɡreɪt/

To emigrate is to leave your country to live in another: emigrate from the UK; emigrate to Canada. Immigrate is arrive; migrate is wider (including animals). Emigrant / emigration are related. Nurses emigrate, colleges told MPs. Trap: immigrant is the person arriving.

Meaning

To leave your own country to live in another.

Examples

• “Nurses continue to emigrate, the royal college told MPs.”
• “They emigrated from Wales in the 1980s, which needs from + country of origin.”

Good to know

emigrate from / to. Opposite direction: immigrate. Wider: migrate. Person leaving: emigrant. Person arriving: immigrant. News and demography.

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