emigrant

noun

em·i·grant | \ ˈe-mi-grənt

Definition of emigrant

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : one who emigrates

2 : a migrant plant or animal

emigrant

adjective

Definition of emigrant (Entry 2 of 2)

: departing or having departed from a country to settle elsewhere

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Synonyms & Antonyms for emigrant

Synonyms: Noun

émigré (also emigré), immigrant, incomer [chiefly British], in-migrant, migrant, out-migrant, settler

Antonyms: Noun

nonimmigrant

Examples of emigrant in a Sentence

Noun

Millions of European emigrants came to America in the 19th century. a city teeming with emigrants from many lands

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Edinburgh The Scots, like the Irish, are a small but globalized nation; the philosophers of Enlightenment were also the engineers, soldiers and emigrants of Empire. — Dominic Green, WSJ, "The National Museum of Scotland Completes a Perfect Revamp," 26 Feb. 2019 Dozens of YouTube videos are being circulated by Hong Kong emigrants touting closer, more affordable places to live, such as Malaysia and Taiwan, where migration has also doubled in the past year. — Paolo Bosonin, WSJ, "Hopeless in Hong Kong: China’s Squeeze Triggers Talk of a New Exodus," 26 Dec. 2018 Just as important, more than half of this year's emigrants are actually foreigners, many of them Eastern European construction workers returning home after the collapse of the Irish property bubble. — Newsweek, "Amazing Photos of Bioluminescent Phytoplankton," 14 Mar. 2018 Other emigrants established themselves in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela—countries that were strategically located near the Panama Canal and shipping lanes in the Caribbean and South Atlantic. — Nicholas Reynolds, WSJ, "‘The Tango War’ Review: The Southern Theater," 24 Oct. 2018 My wife, the daughter of Italian emigrants, grew up in Geneva and attended the French-speaking compulsory schools. — WSJ, "Marketing French as a World Language, or Not," 21 June 2018 The remote posting served to isolate John D. Lee, who bore the brunt of the blame for the Mountain Meadow Massacre in which 120 emigrants on their way to California were killed. — Scott Craven, azcentral, "Lees Ferry: Gateway to Grand Canyon rafting and the Colorado River," 9 July 2018 The maps accompanying the reports furnished emigrants with an accurate road map for the journeys that thousands would take west in the 1840s and 1850s. — Johnforristerross, Longreads, "Taming the Great American Desert," 2 July 2018 Negar Djavadi is, with her story of a family of Iranian emigrants to Paris. — New York Times, "10 New Books We Recommend This Week," 14 June 2018

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