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Definition of Emigrant
1. Noun. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
Generic synonyms: Migrant, Migrator
Derivative terms: Emigrate
Definition of Emigrant
1. a. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.
2. n. One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
Definition of Emigrant
1. Noun. Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emigrant
1. one that emigrates [n -S] - See also: emigrates
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emigrant
Literary usage of Emigrant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"THE IMPORTATION OF LABOR (a) THE AMERICAN emigrant COMPANY The legislature of
... THE AMERICAN emigrant COMPANY, chartered for the purpose of procuring and ..."
2. A Compendium of the Law of Merchant Shipping: With an Appendix Containing by Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock, Gainsford Bruce (1881)
"Provisions relating to emigrant passenger ships before clearance. ... 14 of the
Passengers Act, 1855, no " emigrant passenger ship " may carry under the ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"We must compliment the publishers on the excellent style in which they have issued
the work. ART. XXIX.—Notes on Health in Calcutta and British emigrant ..."
4. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1922)
"emigrant Aliens Departed, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1908 to 1921, by Races or
People. 4. emigrant Aliens Departed, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, ..."