'Emigrant' definitions:
Definition of 'emigrant'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Emigrant'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Emigrant'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'emigrant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alien,
- arriviste,
- colonist,
- departer,
- displaced person,
- DP,
- emigre,
- evacue,
- evacuee,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- fugitive,
- gate-crasher,
- goer,
- greenhorn,
- immigrant,
- in-migrant,
- intruder,
- leaver,
- migrant,
- migrator,
- migratory,
- migratory worker,
- new arrival,
- new boy,
- newcomer,
- novus homo,
- out-migrant,
- parvenu,
- recruit,
- refugee,
- rookie,
- settler,
- squatter,
- stateless person,
- stowaway,
- tenderfoot,
- trekker,
- upstart,
- wetback