About The Word Emigrant
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Emigrant
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What's The Definition Of Emigrant?
[n] someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Synonyms | Synonyms for Emigrant: emigre | emigree | outgoer Related Terms | Find terms related to Emigrant: alien | arriviste | colonist | departer | displaced person | DP | emigre | evacue | evacuee | exile | expatriate | fugitive | gate-crasher | goer | greenhorn | immigrant | in-migrant | intruder | leaver | migrant | migrator | migratory | migratory worker | new arrival | new boy | newcomer | novus homo | out-migrant | parvenu | recruit | refugee | rookie | settler | squatter | stateless person | stowaway | tenderfoot | trekker | upstart | wetback Emigrant In Webster's Dictionary \Em"i*grant\, a. [L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of
emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. ['e]migrant. See {Emigrate}, v.
i.]
1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an
emigrant company or nation.
2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an
emigrant ship or hospital.
\Em"i*grant\, n. One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another. Syn: {Emigrant}, {Immigrant}. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it. |
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