One entry found for émigré.

Entry Word: émigré
Function: noun
Text: also emigré
1 a person forced to emigrate for political reasons <the revolution resulted in a flood of émigrés into neighboring countries>
Synonyms deportee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, refugee
Related Words alien, fugitive; castoff, outcast, pariah; loyalist, patriot
2 one that leaves one place to settle in another <the émigrés had little understanding of what awaited them in America> -- see EMIGRANT