Emigrant

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emigrant \Em"i*grant\, a. [L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of
     emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. ['e]migrant. See {Emigrate}, v.
     i.]
     1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an
        emigrant company or nation.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an
        emigrant ship or hospital.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emigrant \Em"i*grant\, n.
     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.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emigrant
       n : someone who leaves one country to settle in another [syn: {emigre},
            {emigree}, {outgoer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "emigrant":
     DP, alien, arriviste, colonist, departer, displaced person, emigre,
     evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fugitive, gate-crasher, goer,
     greenhorn, immigrant, in-migrant, intruder, leaver, migrant,
     migrator, migratory, migratory worker, new arrival, new boy,
     newcomer, novus homo, out-migrant, parvenu, recruit, refugee,
     rookie, settler, squatter, stateless person, stowaway, tenderfoot,
     trekker, upstart, wetback
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EMIGRANT. One who quits his country for any lawful reason, with a design to 
  settle elsewhere, and who takes his family and property, if he has any, with 
  him. Vatt. b. 1, c. 19, Sec. 224. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Emigrant, MT
    Zip code(s): 59027