Expatriate and Native

Expatriate

Expatriate noun - A person forced to emigrate for political reasons.

Native is an antonym for expatriate.

Native

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Usage example: though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner

Expatriate is an antonym for native.

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

How words are described

male male expatriate male native
young young expatriate young native
english english expatriate english native

Both words in one sentence

  • Yanki J, the alternate persona of JewWario, is an Osakan expatriate who speaks English with a native inflection.
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