Emigrate vs. Immigrate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Emigrate and Immigrate
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Definitions
Emigrate
To leave one country or region to settle in another. See Usage Note at migrate.
Immigrate
Come to live permanently in a foreign country
An Australian who immigrated to Britain in 1982
Emigrate
(intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
Immigrate
To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. See Usage Note at migrate.
Emigrate
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.
They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
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Immigrate
To send or introduce as immigrants
Britain immigrated many colonists to the New World.
Emigrate
Migratory; roving.
Immigrate
(intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.
Emigrate
Leave one's country of residence for a new one;
Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period
Immigrate
To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.
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Immigrate
Migrate to a new environment;
Only few plants can immigrate to the island
Immigrate
Introduce or send as immigrants;
Britain immigrated many colonists to America
Immigrate
Come into a new country and change residency;
Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century
