emigrant
noun/ˈemɪɡrənt/
/ˈemɪɡrənt/
- a person who leaves their country to live permanently in another
- emigrant workers
- emigrants to Canada
- During the reign of Charles I there was a flood of emigrants to North America.
- My grandparents were Italian emigrants who settled in New York in the 1920s.
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin emigrant- ‘migrating from’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’.
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