Definitions for emigres

emigres é·mi·gré

Spelling: [em-i-grey; French ey-mee-grey]
IPA: /ˈɛm ɪˌgreɪ; French eɪ miˈgreɪ/

Emigres is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in emigres (eegimrs).

Definitions for emigres

noun

  1. an emigrant, especially a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions.
  2. a person who fled from France because of opposition to or fear of the revolution that began in 1789.

Origin of emigres

1785-95; French: noun use of past participle of émigrer Latin ēmīgrāre to emigrate

Examples for emigres

Ah, you conversed about this favorite theme of the emigres, about the restoration question!

I expect he told him that we were prisoners of importance, either English spies or French emigres.

The priests had followed the "emigres" into their long exile.

He removed their names from the list of emigres, though they certainly took part in that last conspiracy against him.

He was too well informed not to be able to distinguish between the hopes of the emigres and the possible.

Madame de Ventadour had been in England in her childhood, for her parents had been emigres.

Fouche relied on the co-operation of the emigres everywhere beyond the Rhine to lure the Duc d'Enghien into the plot.

I confine myself to emigres—these damned aristocrats whom it is every good Frenchman's duty to aid in stamping out.

The marquis and his family had been among the first emigres at the outbreak of the Revolution.

He was all-powerful in Montaignac; and I was accused of being in correspondence with the emigres.

Word Value for emigres
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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