Associations to the word «Emigrate»

Wiktionary

EMIGRATE, verb. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.

Dictionary definition

EMIGRATE, verb. Leave one's country of residence for a new one; "Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats