What does the word emigrant mean?
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Part of speech: noun
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One
who
emigrates.
Usage examples for emigrant
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One
day,
said
President
Lincoln,
an
emigrant
stopped
at
my
store,
and
asked
me
to
buy
a
barrel
of
odds
and
ends,
of
little
value,
for
which
he
had
no
room
in
his
wagon.
– Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
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But
his
mother
died,
and
the
young
emigrant
withdrew
his
foot
from
the
deck
of
the
Canadian
ship
to
take
his
place
in
the
British
peerage,
to
bear
an
ancient
English
title
and
become
master
of
an
old
English
estate,
to
marry
a
brilliant
woman
of
English
fashionable
society,
and
be
thenceforth
the
ideal
of
an
English
country
gentleman,
that
most
enviable
of
mortals,
as
far
as
outward
circumstance
and
position
can
make
a
man
so.
– Records of a Girlhood by Frances Ann Kemble