Entry Word: emigrant

Function: noun

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

Synonyms émigré (also emigré), immigrant, migrant, settler

Related Words defector, deportee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, refugee; alien, foreigner, noncitizen, nonnative; colonist, newcomer, squatter

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

Antonyms nonimmigrant