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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emigrant
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the number of emigrants forced the introduction of booking systems, although a booked passage did not guarantee comfort.
▪ However, this had its dangers, and it was several weeks before an emigrant from Earth could adapt to it.
▪ In addition, there is no guarantee that the assisted emigrants will not return to their communities after a short period.
▪ Prices are spiralling, the economy is contracting and jobs are disappearing even faster than the emigrants are leaving.
▪ The emigrants dissolve their pasts in labour, in blurred decades where memory is functionless.
▪ The old school, the original emigrants, were mostly gone.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emigrant

Emigrant \Em"i*grant\, a. [L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. ['e]migrant. See Emigrate, v. i.]

  1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

  2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.

Emigrant

Emigrant \Em"i*grant\, n. One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

Syn: Emigrant, Immigrant. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emigrant

"one who quits a country or region to settle in another," 1754, from Latin emigrantem (nominative emigrans), present participle of emigrare "move away" (see emigration). As an adjective in English from 1794.

Wiktionary
emigrant

n. Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.

WordNet
emigrant

n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another [syn: emigre, emigree, outgoer]

Usage examples of "emigrant".

His being a French emigrant cannot take from him the rights of a flag of truce, and I again claim him in that character.

Bonaparte replied as follows: GENERAL--An emigrant is a parricide whom no character can render sacred.

I was obliged to remain at Sens, soliciting my erasure from the emigrant list, which I did not obtain, however, till 1797, and to put an end to a charge made against me of having fabricated a certificate of residence.

I was then ignorant that my erasure from the emigrant list had been ordered on the 11th of November, as the decree did not reach the commissary of the Executive Directory at Auxerre until the 17th of November, the day of our departure from Milan.

Defeu, a French emigrant, was taken in the Tyrol with arms in his hand by the troops of the Republic.

In the course of January General Ferino, then commanding at Grenoble, received orders to put the young emigrant on his trial.

Until the middle of the year 1801 the erasures from the emigrant list had always been proposed by the Minister of Police.

French emigrant, should, unless he had permission previously to the place, make a longer sojourn than was allowed to foreign travellers.

The speculation for this fall of the exchange had been made with equal imprudence and animosity by the house of Osy and Company The head of that house, a Dutch emigrant, who had been settled at Hamburg about six years, seized every opportunity of manifesting his hatred of France.

A similar Ordinance sequestered the restored property of emigrant families.

I was assured that the interior of the country was more inviting, and I was advised to lose no time in getting on my land, for it had been observed, that more than one emigrant who had lost his time in loitering over the town, gaping and staring about, and fretting and complaining because all things did not come easy to his hand, had soon got rid of so much of his money, as not to have enough left to establish himself and carry him through the first year.

They fancy that all that is necessary is to set an emigrant down on a little bit of land, and then, on the calculation that an acre of land will produce as much wheat as a man can consume in a year, they think that he has only to work to support himself.

Observe, that I all along presume that the emigrant can sustain himself without eating or realizing one of his increasing sheep.

Zendt told of how Purchas had killed the Pawnee and how the Pawnee had slain the emigrant couple, leaving behind two children.

They may also point out that it was traditional for emigrant parties to reach Fort John at least one month earlier than the Zendts got there, and they will be right.