emigrant

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡrənt/

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Noun

Singular emigrant

Plural emigrants

1. (countable) An emigrant is a person who has left their own country to live in another country.
   • Antonym: immigrant

   In the 1840's about 30,000 emigrants left Ireland every year.

Related words

• emigration
• emigrate