GC: n

S: The Guardian – https://bit.ly/2VUuZj9 (last access: 11 April 2017); BBC – https://bbc.in/2HbATsL (last access: 11 April 2017).

N: 1. From French émigré, from past participle of émigrer to emigrate, from Latin emigrare.
First Known Use: 1792.
Late 18th century (originally denoting a person escaping the French Revolution): French, past participle of émigrer ‘emigrate’.
2. Definition of émigré: emigrant; especially: a person who emigrates for political reasons.
3. A person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons. ‘Soviet émigrés and defectors’.
As modifier: ‘émigré life’.
4. As nouns the difference between emigrant and emigre is that emigrant is someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country while emigre is one who has departed their native land, often as a refugee.

S: 1. MW – https://bit.ly/2sw6fjC (last access: 11 April 2017); OD – https://bit.ly/2RTaOCY (last access: 11 April 2017). 2. MW – https://bit.ly/2sw6fjC (last access: 11 April 2017). 3. OD – https://bit.ly/2RTaOCY (last access: 11 April 2017). 4. WikiDiff – https://bit.ly/2RudMPc (last access: 11 April 2017).

OV: emigré (less commonly)

S: MW – https://bit.ly/2sw6fjC (last access: 11 April 2017)

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CR: alienage, emigrant, emigration, expatriation, expatriate, immigration, small boat.