/?em.?.ɡre?/someone who has had toleavetheircountrypermanently, usually forpoliticalreasons（通常指因政治原因而移居外国的）流亡者SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesPeople who live or settle somewhere
asylum seeker
boarder
brain drain
city slicker
co-resident
Georgian
guest worker
habitant
illegal alien
illegal immigrant
lodger
Orcadian
outflow
overspill
repeople
returnee
squatter
villager
welcome wagon
year-rounder
See more results ?(Definition ofémigréfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)Examples from literature
A French émigré of the old school, with the dainty, gallant ways of the ancien régime, he still clung to the dress of his earlier days, and wore a veritable queue, silk stockings and buckled shoes.
But it is not given to all émigré's to become great capitalists or great leaders.
He is an émigré.
This gentleman, a French émigré, who found a refuge in Canada, had thrown himself with great devotion into the rough life of a missionary among the scattered peoples, Canadians and Indians alike, of his remote parish.
