'Emigration' definitions:
Definition of 'emigration'
(from WordNet)
noun
Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) [syn: emigration, out-migration, expatriation]
Definition of 'Emigration'
From: GCIDE
- Emigration \Em`i*gra"tion\, n. [L. emigratio: cf. F. ['e]migration.]
- 1. The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration. [1913 Webster]