emigration

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

Etymology

From Late Latin stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

out-migration, expatriation

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