Meaning of EMIGRANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'emugrunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] someone who leaves one country to settle in another |
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| | Synonyms: | | emigre, emigree, outgoer |
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| | See Also: | | migrant, migrator | |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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