Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who has left a native country, especially for political reasons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An emigrant: applied specifically to those persons, chiefly royalists, who became refugees from France during the revolution which began in 1789.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.
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- noun A Frenchman who has departed their native land, especially a royalist who left during the
French Revolution . - noun An
emigrant , one who departs their native land to become animmigrant in another, especially a politicalexile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from past participle of émigrer, to emigrate, from Latin ēmigrāre; see emigrate.]
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From French émigré.
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