expat
a person who leaves his home country to live abroad
TRANSLATION
expat = Auswanderer; im Ausland Lebender; ständig im Ausland lebend German expat = Auslandsdeutsche colloquial abbreviation of “expatriate” to expatriate = ausbürgern
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
In 1921, Ernest Hemingway, intrigued by Sherwood Anderson's tales of Parisian life, sailed for France. There he passed long hours strolling through the Jardin du Luxembourg, borrowed books from Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Company, and earned a living sending newspaper articles to the Toronto Star.
His family settled in Montparnasse, the hub of the EXPATRIATE community, where Hemingway wrote several short stories and his first two novels (Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises, both published in 1926) and became the talk of the town.
Though Hemingway left Paris in 1928, he returned in 1944 as the city was freed from the Germans. His role in the conflict? "Liberating," with a band of French resistance fighters, the wine cellar in the famous Ritz Hotel.
Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961) American sportsman and writer, Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1954) noted for his terse literary style; for his legendary machismo; and for such works as The Sun Also Rises (1926), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
His family settled in Montparnasse, the hub of the EXPATRIATE community, where Hemingway wrote several short stories and his first two novels (Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises, both published in 1926) and became the talk of the town.
Though Hemingway left Paris in 1928, he returned in 1944 as the city was freed from the Germans. His role in the conflict? "Liberating," with a band of French resistance fighters, the wine cellar in the famous Ritz Hotel.
Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961) American sportsman and writer, Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1954) noted for his terse literary style; for his legendary machismo; and for such works as The Sun Also Rises (1926), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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expat (informal - British), abbreviation of
expatriate
noun, verb, adjective
noun
1. One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.
2. One who has renounced one's native land.
verb
1. To send into exile.
2. To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
verb intr.
1. To give up residence in one's homeland.
2. To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.
adjective
Residing in a foreign country; expatriated: “She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome” (Janet H. Murray).
Origin: Medieval Latin expatriare, expatriat- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin patria, native land (from patrius, paternal, from pater, father.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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expatriate
noun, verb, adjective
noun
1. One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.
2. One who has renounced one's native land.
verb
1. To send into exile.
2. To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
verb intr.
1. To give up residence in one's homeland.
2. To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.
adjective
Residing in a foreign country; expatriated: “She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome” (Janet H. Murray).
Origin: Medieval Latin expatriare, expatriat- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin patria, native land (from patrius, paternal, from pater, father.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
“We have several British expats in our company, one of them could do a final check the advertising text.”
