单词 | emigrant |
释义 | emigrantn.adj. A. n. a. One who removes from his own land to settle (permanently) in another. Frequently attributive in sense ‘of, pertaining to, or used by emigrants’, as emigrant camp, emigrant car, emigrant company, emigrant road, emigrant ship, emigrant trail. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > emigrant transmigrant1622 transmigrator1743 emigrant1754 top-cast1827 emigrator1837 exodist1848 out-settler1852 little brother1925 out-migrant1936 emigré1955 1754 (title) A Memorial of the Case of the German Emigrants settled in..Pensilvania. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. ev In these expeditions, the northern emigrants, were..attended by their..poets. 1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. iii. 369 I greatly doubt of its being..of any benefit to the emigrants themselves. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xii. 82 The emigrants were headed by chiefs who claimed descent from Agamemnon. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 226 The noise of embarking emigrants. b. spec. Any one of the French Royalists who fled at the time of the Revolution; = emigré n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > emigrant > who fled the French Revolution emigrant1792 emigré1792 1792 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) I. 368 The deplorable state of the French emigrants. 1812 T. Amyot Some Acct. Life W. Windham I. 39 An expedition, composed of Emigrants, proceeded against Quiberon. 1860 L. V. Harcourt Diaries G. Rose I. 162 The Emperor had insisted that the Emigrants should make no attempt to disturb the public tranquillity. B. adj. That emigrates or leaves his own land for another. Also (of birds): migratory. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > migratory migranta1682 migratory1708 migrating1753 emigrating1792 emigrant1796 emigratory?1839 migrational1888 society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > emigration > [adjective] emigrant1796 emigrating1812 emigratory1849 emigrational1885 1796 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. III 13 Emigrant Catholick priests. 1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 233 The same birds are emigrant from some countries and not so from others. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.adj.1754 |
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