EXPATRIATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

Synonyms:

emigration; expatriation; out-migration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("expatriation" is a kind of...):

migration (the movement of persons from one country or locality to another)

Derivation:

expatriate (move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad)

Meaning:

The act of expelling a person from their native land

Example:

the sentence was one of transportation for life

Synonyms:

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("expatriation" is a kind of...):

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Instance hyponyms:

Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)

Derivation:

expatriate (expel from a country)