emigrantnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈem.ɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈem.ə.ɡrənt/a person who emigrates
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People who live or settle somewhere
- asylum seeker
- brain drain
- bum
- city slicker
- cohabitant
- cottager
- foreign-returned
- frontiersman
- guest worker
- illegal alien
- illegal immigrant
- lodger
- outflow
- overspill
- resident
- roomer
- settler
- son
- squatter
- welcome wagon
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Examples from literature
- And in modern times, Venice, Genoa, Portugal, Spain, France, and England, all sent forth emigrants to people foreign shores.
- Do the emigrants always select places hitherto uninhabited and barren?
- In the hotel where I passed the night, most of the servants seemed to be emigrants from Canada.
- The early history of some of the emigrants is almost the reality of romance.
- These emigrants were quiet folk and had children with them.