Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that emigrates.
- adj. Of or relating to emigrants or the act of emigrating.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Moving from one place or country to another for the purpose of settling there: as, an emigrant family: used with reference to the country from which the movement takes place. See immigrant.
- Pertaining to emigration or emigrants: as, an emigrant ship.
- n. One who removes his habitation from one place to another for settlement; specifically, one who quits one country or region to settle in another.
- n. In biology, one of a generation of parthenogenetic insects which migrate from the plant upon which they were born to a plant of another kind upon which they multiply.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Removing from one country to another; emigrating.
- adj. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants.
- n. One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Examples
“Sarah Brooks Sundberg has argued that the substantial contributions of prairie farm women as homemakers, home manufacturers, field hands, wage earners, and teachers was understated by the persistent image of "helpmates" in emigrant promotional literature in the late nineteenth century.”
“An emigrant is both trying to escape something and advance towards another thing at the same time.”
“New Trier Township High School on the well-to-do Chicago North Shore, enjoyed a national reputation, and, with a swimming pool, athletic fields, cafeteria, as well as excellent teachers, offered horizons unimaginable to the young emigrant from a small German town.”
“Around the word emigrant hovers the idea of distance; he comes from far-off countries, from a place which cannot be easily reached, or from which information concerning himself cannot be readily obtained.”
“Around the word emigrant or immigrant hovers always the idea of an exchange of habits, customs, and language of one country with those of another.”
“If the German emigrant is slightly superior in the industrial career, in politics he is a cipher by the side of the Irishman.”
“After seven years 'exile, the hope of return grows feeble, the means are still less in our power, and our friends give up all hope of our return; their letters grow fewer and colder, their expressions of attachment are less vivid; the heart has formed new ties, and the poor emigrant is nearly forgotten.”
“In toasting "the women of Nebraska," at the collation, I said: "Here's to the mothers, who came hither by long, tedious journeys, closely packed with restless children in emigrant wagons, cooking the meals by day, and nursing the babies by night, while the men slept.”
“The emigrant has been the theme of song and story.”
“They came into my life when I needed them; when perhaps I was swinging too far in my belief that the emigrant was the only force for progress in our nation.”
One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America
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