emigrant

Definitions


[ˈɛmɪɡr(ə)nt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another
(e.g: she was a Polish emigrant who came to Scotland during the Second World War)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 18th century: from Latin emigrant- ‘migrating from’, from the verb emigrare (see emigrate)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries