emigrant

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Synonyms for emigrant

noun person who leaves his or her native country

adjective. pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory

noun. person thrown out of a country

noun. person who moves to a foreign place

noun. immigrant worker

noun. person running from something, often oppression

noun. person running from something, often oppression

1754, from Latin emigrantem (nominative emigrans), present participle of emigrare (see emigration).

Behold me on my way to an Emigrant Ship, on a hot morning early in June.

He had not a sou of money for his passage, as he had not even been able to pay for an emigrant's ticket.

The only response is, that I have acted for an emigrant, and where is that emigrant?

Not an emigrant, he hoped, within the sense and spirit of the law.

What does the emigrant from Europe bring to America besides his baggage?

We must have all the emigrant fun we can, for we'll only be Ted and Kitty after we get home.

He is an emigrant rather than a sailor, for he has only shipped for a passage.

But capital is indispensable to his success, and no emigrant should proceed there without it.

Then there is another danger—the tendency of emigrant colonization.

The newer American emigrant came for land and secured it outside.