what is emigrate mean
The difference is fairly subtle. 1  To Emigrate is to leave one country to settle in another. ( 2 The focus is on the original country). 3  To Immigrate is to come to a new country to live.( 4 The focus is on the new country).o emigrate is to leave a country, especially one's own, intending to remain away. To immigrate is to enter a country, intending to remain there: my aunt emigrated from Poland and immigrated to Canada. The OED reports that immigrate is chiefly North American.