EMIGRANT

emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer

(noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

emigrant (plural emigrants)

Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.

Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.

Antonyms

• immigrant

Anagrams

• Tigerman, antigerm, man-tiger, remating

Source: Wiktionary

Em"i*grant, a. Etym: [L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. émigrant. See Emigrate, v. i.]

1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.

Em"i*grant, n.

Definition: One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

Syn.

– Emigrant, Immigrant. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition