emigrant
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Synonyms & Antonyms for emigrant
Synonyms: Noun
émigré (also emigré), immigrant, incomer [chiefly British], in-migrant, migrant, out-migrant, settler
Antonyms: Noun
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Millions of European emigrants came to America in the 19th century. a city teeming with emigrants from many landsRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Swedish emigrants Karl-Oskar, wife Kristina and family struggle in 1850 Minnesota. — Los Angeles Times, "Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019," 11 Aug. 2019 The high cost of housing is now a barrier to inward investment, to emigrants returning with skills, to people hoping to start families and who want to move. — New York Times, "Housing Crisis Grips Ireland a Decade After Property Bubble Burst," 8 Aug. 2019 In Ethiopia the tide may reach 1.5 million people—more than 15 times the emigrants now straggling annually through the Afar Triangle to reach the Middle East. — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, "A storyteller chronicles the mass migrations that define our age," 17 July 2019 After all, a sizable number of their own parents came from China -- in the 1940s, a huge wave of mainland emigrants fled the Chinese Civil War to Hong Kong. — Jessie Yeung, CNN, "Family feuds and social media spats: The generational divide that's splitting apart Hong Kong," 9 July 2019 The intention is for emigrants from rural areas to the cities to be able to funnel money to their hometowns. — The Economist, "Rural areas bear the burden of Japan’s ageing, shrinking population," 29 June 2019 The current election has marked the first time that Guatemalans could cast ballots from abroad: At least 60,000 were eligible to vote in Los Angeles, New York, Maryland and Washington, D.C., all home to large numbers of Guatemalan emigrants. — Fox News, "Guatemalans choose new president as many journey to US for better life," 17 June 2019 Edinburgh The Scots, like the Irish, are a small but globalized nation; the philosophers of Enlightenment were also the engineers, soldiers and emigrants of Empire. — Dominic Green, WSJ, "The National Museum of Scotland Completes a Perfect Revamp," 26 Feb. 2019 Dozens of YouTube videos are being circulated by Hong Kong emigrants touting closer, more affordable places to live, such as Malaysia and Taiwan, where migration has also doubled in the past year. — Paolo Bosonin, WSJ, "Hopeless in Hong Kong: China’s Squeeze Triggers Talk of a New Exodus," 26 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'emigrant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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