The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word EXILE , but the solution may also be DEPORT which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Expatriate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EXILE | 41 % | 5 |
| EMIGRE | 27 % | 6 |
| EMIGRANT | 14 % | 8 |
| DEPORT | 9 % | 6 |
| OUTCAST | 5 % | 7 |
| ANAMERICANINPARIS | 5 % | 17 |
Why may DEPORT be the right solution?
"Expatriate" is a word that can mean to leave one's own country and live in another. "Deport" means to expel someone from a country. In this context, "Expatriate" is a clue that is asking for a word that means to leave a country voluntarily, whereas "Deport" is a word that means to be forced to leave a country. Therefore, "Deport" is the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Expatriate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- exile
- deport
- diaspora
- overseas
- immigrant
- foreigners
- migrant
- nationals
- foreign
- foreigner
- emigrant
- abroad
Crossword Answer definitions
EXILE noun- The state of being banished from one's home or country.
- Someone who is banished from their home or country.
- To send into exile.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result EXILE
- Banish
- Expatriate
- Ostracize
- Banishment
- Elba, to Napoleon
- Member of the diaspora
- Deposed leader's fate
- Send to Siberia
- "___ in Guyville" (Classic Liz Phair album)
- Philip Nolan's fate
More clues leading to the result EMIGRE
- Politically-motivated mover
- Homeland leaver
- Refugee
- Political transplant
- Solzhenitsyn in 1974, e.g.
- Frenchman who fled the Revolution
- Political refugee
- Asylum seeker
- Settler in a foreign land
- Political asylum seeker
More clues leading to the result EMIGRANT
- "The Grapes of Wrath" character
- One on the move?
- One who leaves the country
- Border crosser, perhaps
- Departer to a new home.
- D. P. coming to America.
- One settling elsewhere
- Leaver of a kind
- Expatriate
- One headed for Ellis Island, say
More clues leading to the result DEPORT
- Kick out
- Send abroad
- Force out
- Expel, in a way
- Banish
- Behave (oneself)
- Expel from a country
- Conduct (oneself)
- Order beyond the border
- Expel
More clues leading to the result OUTCAST
- Bully's target, often
- Ishmael
- Ostracized one
- Pariah
- Pariah.
- "Poker Flat" character.
- Exile.
- Waif.
- Unwanted one.
- Poker Flat figure