emigration

See also: Emigration and émigration

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

emigration (countable and uncountable, plural emigrations)

1. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.

   Synonym: outmigration

   Antonyms: inmigration, immigration

   Hypernym: migration

2. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively.

   the Irish emigration

Derived terms

• antiemigration
• emigrational
• emigrationist
• inner emigration
• nonemigration
• postemigration
• semigration

Related terms

• emigrate (verb)
• émigré, emigre
• migrate
• migratory

Translations

act of emigrating

Afrikaans: emigrasie Albanian: emigrim (sq) m, emigracion (sq) m Arabic: هِجْرَة (ar) f (hijra) Armenian: արտագաղթ (hy) (artagaġtʻ) Asturian: emigración f Azerbaijani: köçmə (az), mühacirət Bashkir: эмиграция (emigratsiya) Basque: emigrazio Belarusian: эмігра́цыя f (emihrácyja) Bengali: হিজরত (bn) (hijrot) Bulgarian: емигра́ция f (emigrácija), изсе́лване (bg) n (izsélvane) Catalan: emigració (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín) Czech: emigrace (cs) f, vystěhovalectví n Danish: udvandring c, emigration c Dutch: uitwijking f, emigratie (nl) f Esperanto: elmigrado Estonian: emigratsioon (et) Finnish: maastamuutto (fi) French: émigration (fr) f Galician: emigración (gl) f Georgian: ემიგრაცია (emigracia), გადასახლება (gadasaxleba) German: Auswanderung (de) f, Emigration (de) f Greek: αποδημία (el) f (apodimía), αποδήμηση (el) f (apodímisi) Hebrew: הֲגִירָה (he) f (hagirah) Hindi: उत्प्रवास m (utpravās) Hungarian: kivándorlás (hu), emigráció (hu) Indonesian: emigrasi (id), perantauan (id) Irish: imirce f Italian: emigrazione (it) f Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), エミグレーション (emigurēshon), 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū) Kazakh: эмиграция (émigrasiä) Korean: 이민(移民) (ko) (imin), 이주(移住) (ko) (iju) Kyrgyz: эмиграция (ky) (emigratsiya) Latin: transmigratio f Latvian: emigrācija f Lithuanian: emigracija (lt) f Macedonian: иселување n (iseluvanje), емиграција f (emigracija) Norwegian: Bokmål: utvandring m or f Nynorsk: utvandring f Polish: emigracja (pl) f Portuguese: emigração (pt) f Romanian: emigrare (ro) f Russian: эмигра́ция (ru) f (emigrácija) Scottish Gaelic: às-imrich f, eilthireachd f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: исеље́ње n, емигра́ција f, исељени́штво n Roman: iseljénje n, emigrácija (sh) f, iseljeníštvo (sh) n Slovak: emigrácia f, vysťahovalectvo n Slovene: izseljevanje n, emigracija (sl) f Spanish: emigración (es) f Swedish: emigration (sv) c, utvandring (sv) c Tagalog: luwasbayan Turkish: göçme (tr) Turkmen: emigrasiýa Ukrainian: емігра́ція (uk) f (emihrácija) Uzbek: emigratsiya (uz) Vietnamese: di dân (vi) Welsh: ymfudiad m Yiddish: עמיגראַציע f (emigratsye)

body of emigrants; emigrants collectively

Asturian: emigración f Belarusian: эмігра́цыя f (emihrácyja) Bengali: মুহাজিরগণ (muhajirgon) Dutch: uitwijking f, emigratie (nl) f Finnish: maastamuuttajat pl Galician: emigración (gl) f German: Auswanderung (de) f Hindi: उत्प्रवासी m (utpravāsī) Irish: imirce f Italian: emigrazione (it) f Latvian: emigrācija f Macedonian: иселеништво n (iseleništvo) Polish: emigracja (pl) f Romanian: emigrație (ro), emigrare (ro) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: исељени́штво n Roman: iseljeníštvo (sh) n Swedish: emigranter (sv) c pl, utvandrare (sv) c pl Ukrainian: емігра́ція (uk) f (emihrácija)

See also

• emigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From emigrere +‎ -tion, from French émigration, from Latin emigratio.

Noun

emigration c (singular definite emigrationen, plural indefinite emigrationer)

1. emigration

   Synonym: udvandring

Declension

Declension of emigration

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	emigration	emigrationen	emigrationer	emigrationerne
genitive	emigrations	emigrationens	emigrationers	emigrationernes

Further reading

• “emigration” in Den Danske Ordbog

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

emigration

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

emigration c

1. emigration

   Synonym: utvandring

   Antonyms: immigration, invandring

Declension

Declension of emigration

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	emigration	emigrations
	definite	emigrationen	emigrationens
plural	indefinite	emigrationer	emigrationers
	definite	emigrationerna	emigrationernas

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigrera

See also

• migration

References

• emigration in Svensk ordbok (SO)