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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
emigrates, emigrating, emigrated |
| definition: |
When people emigrate, they leave their country in order to settle in another. People often emigrate because of poverty, hunger, or violence in their own country, but some people emigrate for other reasons.
My grandfather emigrated from his home in India in order to join his brother and his family in New York. |
| related words: |
migrate, move |
| derivation: |
emigrative (adj.) |
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