as in immigrant
one that leaves one place to settle in another
a city with emigrants from many lands
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Recent Examples of emigrant
When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.
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Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Circumnavigated the globe 21 times, transported emigrants from Britain to New Zealand, hauled salmon from Alaska.
—Roger Showley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
Landed during the rainy season in a swamp, the emigrants found neither fresh water nor waterproof dwellings awaiting them, though they were shortly regaled with a supply of skates!
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
The motel, which is owned by his father and his uncle, emigrants from London, is not far from where Naran grew up, in Echo Park.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Circumnavigated the globe 21 times, transported emigrants from Britain to New Zealand, hauled salmon from Alaska.
—Roger Showley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
Landed during the rainy season in a swamp, the emigrants found neither fresh water nor waterproof dwellings awaiting them, though they were shortly regaled with a supply of skates!
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
The motel, which is owned by his father and his uncle, emigrants from London, is not far from where Naran grew up, in Echo Park.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emigrant
Noun
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Children of immigrants attend local schools, and their parents work in every sector of the economy, including restaurants, transportation, construction, farming and ranching, hotels, resorts and hospitals.—
Benjamin Waddell,
Denver Post,
22 Apr. 2025
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Governor Ron DeSantis recently endorsed child labor as a fix for worker shortages caused by mass deportations and by a new state law criminalizing undocumented immigrants.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For instance, 17 people were charged in 2024 for taking part in protests or demonstrations in support of irregular migrants, without apparently having any direct contact with them.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Despite border crossings being down, Trump invoked the 1798 wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants his administration alleged to be gang members, affording them little to no due process.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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My life is still at the mercy of the settlers and the occupation.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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The district and town are named for the Massapequa Tribe that lived on Long Island before European settlers arrived in the 1600s.—
Elizabeth Crisp,
The Hill,
21 Apr. 2025
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Hundreds of Vietnamese refugees from San Diego and Orange counties attended the ceremony, and many were joined by their children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Apr. 2025
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What might destroy our society is not immigrants or refugees or Palestinians or women seeking abortions or trans people or any of the other assorted others that have been posited as undermining American society.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Emigrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emigrant. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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