emigrant
pronunciation
How to pronounce emigrant in British English:
UK [ˈemɪɡrənt]
How to pronounce emigrant in American English:
US [ ˈemɪɡrənt]
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- Noun:
- someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Word Origin
- emigrant (n.)
- "one who quits a country or region to settle in another," 1754, from Latin emigrantem (nominative emigrans), present participle of emigrare "move away" (see emigration). As an adjective in English from 1794.
Antonym
Example
- 1. A 19th-century russian emigrant might never see or speak to his family again .
- 2. Exile , however , gives perspective , making every emigrant an anthropologist and relativist .
- 3. Use online savings . I use emigrant direct , but ing direct is also popular , as are a bunch of other online banks .
- 4. You could set up different accounts for each expense in an online bank such as ing or emigrant , or put it all in one account and use money or quicken or a spreadsheet to keep track of each .
- 5. A study of romanian migrants to america found that the average emigrant earned almost $ 12000 a year more in america than he would have done in his native land , a huge premium for someone from a country where income per person is around $ 7500 ( at market exchange rates ) .