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emigrant

noun as in person who leaves his or her native country

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It’s told by 10 people affected by the disaster, such as a drug trafficker, an emigrant musician and an old woman selling produce in a market.

She notes that the countries with the greatest number of highly educated emigrants—India, China, and the Philippines—have some of the most travel-restrictive passports.

From Quartz

At City of Rocks, seek out Register Rock, etched with names and inscriptions from California Trail emigrants who passed through in the 19th century.

In 2018, thousands of emigrants from Africa and the Middle East risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in small, overcrowded boats.

From Quartz

Interviews with emigrants reveal that many of them have simply lost hope that things will ever get better in their home countries.

We had fallen in with the advanced corps of the Emigrant army under the command of the Prince of Condé.

The army of emigrant nobles at Coblentz, within the dominions of the King of Prussia, was rapidly increasing in numbers.

It is said to be not unusual, for the peasantry of Liverpool, to speak of Mr. Bell, as a benefactor of the emigrant domestics.

The messenger reports that they are on the march from Fort Bent with an emigrant train, and will not be here for a week.

They had been turned back from the emigrant station on Ellis Island, and were now sadly returning to Liverpool.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to emigrant, such as: alien, colonist, displaced person, evacuee, expatriate, and migrant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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