expatriation

Other forms of expatriation

plural

expatriations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about expatriation

What does expatriation mean?

expatriation means "the act of expelling a person from their native land". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expatriation?

expatriation has 5 syllables: ex-pa-tri-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ɛkˌspeɪtɹiˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for expatriation?

Close synonyms include exile, deportation, transportation, emigration, out-migration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is expatriation a common word?

expatriation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with expatriation?

133 words rhyme with expatriation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.