Emigrate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emigrating.]
Etymology: [L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.
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Emigrate, a.
Migratory; roving. [Obs.]
Shades of meaning
To migrate is to change one's dwelling-place, usually with the idea of repeated change, or of periodical return; it applies to wandering tribes of men, and to many birds and animals. Emigrate and immigrate carry the idea of a permanent change of residence to some other country or some distant region; the two words are used distinctively of human beings, and apply to the same person and the same act, according to the side from which the action is viewed.
Prepositions
A person emigrates from the land he leaves, and immigrates to the land where he takes up his abode.