emigrant

emigrant

noun

Definition of EMIGRANT

one that leaves one place to settle in another <a city teeming with emigrants from many lands>

Synonyms émigré (also emigr{eacute}), immigrant, incomer [chiefly British], in-migrant, migrant, out-migrant, settler

Related Words defector, deportee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, refugee, relocatee, repatriate; alien, foreigner, illegal, noncitizen, nonnative; colonist, newcomer, squatter; migrator, pilgrim, pioneer, trekker

Near Antonyms aborigine, native; citizen, habitant, inhabitant, national, resident

Antonyms nonimmigrant