EMIGRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emigrant mean? 

• EMIGRANT (noun)
  The noun EMIGRANT has 1 sense:

1. someone who leaves one country to settle in another

  Familiarity information: EMIGRANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMIGRANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who leaves one country to settle in another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

emigrant; emigre; emigree; outgoer

Hypernyms ("emigrant" is a kind of...):

migrant; migrator (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)

Derivation:

emigrate (leave one's country of residence for a new one)

 Context examples 

When this was done, my aunt and Agnes rose, and parted from the emigrants.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Aye, I remember, so it was; I was thinking of that other stupid book, written by that woman they make such a fuss about, she who married the French emigrant.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Dashwood had never been so much pleased with any young women in her life, as she was with them; had given each of them a needle book made by some emigrant; called Lucy by her Christian name; and did not know whether she should ever be able to part with them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the forecastle of an emigrant ship.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ground now covering all that could perish of my departed wife, I waited only for what Mr. Micawber called the “final pulverization of Heep”; and for the departure of the emigrants.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An old man playing at see-saw, I took up the first volume once and looked it over, but I soon found it would not do; indeed I guessed what sort of stuff it must be before I saw it: as soon as I heard she had married an emigrant, I was sure I should never be able to get through it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The family, as emigrants, being objects of some interest in and about Hungerford, attracted so many beholders, that we were glad to take refuge in their room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Three years had elapsed since the sailing of the emigrant ship; when, at that same hour of sunset, and in the same place, I stood on the deck of the packet vessel that brought me home, looking on the rosy water where I had seen the image of that ship reflected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How the emigrants never wrote home, otherwise than cheerfully and hopefully; how Mr. Micawber had actually remitted divers small sums of money, on account of those pecuniary liabilities, in reference to which he had been so business-like as between man and man; how Janet, returning into my aunt's service when she came back to Dover, had finally carried out her renunciation of mankind by entering into wedlock with a thriving tavern-keeper; and how my aunt had finally set her seal on the same great principle, by aiding and abetting the bride, and crowning the marriage-ceremony with her presence; were among our topics—already more or less familiar to me through the letters I had had.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)