expatriation

C2+ Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ɛkˌspeɪtriˈeɪʃən/ UK /ɛksˌpætriˈeɪʃən/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
the act of leaving or being banished from one's native country

Years of expatriation gave the writer an outsider's eye on home.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the act of leaving or being... emigration exile banishment expulsion deportation migration

Opposites

repatriationimmigration

Word family

Related forms expatriate repatriatepatria

Etymology

From Medieval Latin expatriatio, from expatriare ('to leave one's country'), from Latin ex- ('out of') + patria ('native land'), from pater ('father').

expatriatio Latin patria Latin pater Latin

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# expatriation

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ɛkˌspeɪtriˈeɪʃən/
**IPA (UK):** /ɛksˌpætriˈeɪʃən/

## Meanings
1. the act of leaving or being banished from one's native country

## Examples
- Years of expatriation gave the writer an outsider's eye on home.

## Synonyms
- emigration
- exile
- banishment
- expulsion
- deportation
- migration

## Antonyms
- repatriation
- immigration

## Related Forms
- expatriate
- repatriate
- patria

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: expatriatio
- Root: patria
- Root: pater

## Etymology
From Medieval Latin expatriatio, from expatriare ('to leave one's country'), from Latin ex- ('out of') + patria ('native land'), from pater ('father').

## AI Etymology
Expatriation comes from Medieval Latin expatriatio, from expatriare ('to leave one's country'), from Latin ex- ('out of') + patria ('native land'), from pater ('father'). Morphologically, the form is compositional, with the named elements combining to produce the modern spelling and sense. In present use, it is used as a noun meaning "the act of leaving or being banished from one's native country", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes related forms such as expatriate, repatriate, and patria, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Latin expatriatio, Latin patria, and Latin pater, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance. Its semantic neighborhood is marked by emigration, exile, banishment, and expulsion on one side and contrasts such as repatriation and immigration on the other, locating the modern specialization without adding a new origin story.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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