expatriate vs immigrant

expatriate

noun
  • One who lives outside one's own country. 

  • One who has been banished from one's own country. 

verb
  • To withdraw from one’s native country. 

  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. 

  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country. 

adj
  • Living outside of one's own country. 

immigrant

noun
  • A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. 

  • A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist. 

adj
  • Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating. 

How often have the words expatriate and immigrant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )