emigration

Main Entry:
emigration [em-i-grey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: migration
Synonyms: colonization, crossing, defection, departure, displacement, exile, exodus, expatriation, homesteading, journey, leaving, march, movement, moving, peregrination, reestablishment, relocation, removal, resettlement, settling, shift, transplanting, travel, trek, uprooting, voyage, wandering
Antonyms: arriving, immigration, remaining
Main Entry: exodus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leaving
Synonyms: departure, egress, egression, emigration, evacuation, exit, exiting, flight, going out, journey, migration, offgoing, retirement, retreat, withdrawal
Antonyms: arrival, entrance
Main Entry: going
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: departure
Synonyms: abandonment, adieu, bow out, congé, decampment, desertion, egress, egression, embarkation, emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, expatriation, farewell, flight, getaway, going away, goodbye*, hegira, migration, parting, passage, powder, quittin
Related Words
Main Entry: departure
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
abducent, abductive, apopemptic, departing, dimissory, effused, fled, nidifugous, outgoing, outward bound, rebarbative, repellent, repelling, repulsive, stolen away, valedictory
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Initial motion from] Departure.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-nouns
departure, decession, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit (egress); exodus, hejira, flight., leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup; valedictorian., starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation.
-verbs
depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from., leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose [U.S.]; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail, put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get underway, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say goodbye, bid goodbye; disappear; abscond (avoid); entrain; inspan.
-adjectives
departing; valedictory; outward bound.
-adverbs
whence, hence, thence; with a foot in the stirrup; on the wing, on the move.
Antonyms: arrival
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