emigrant

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

emi·grant [emigrant emigrants] BrE [ˈemɪɡrənt] NAmE [ˈemɪɡrənt] noun
a person who leaves their country to live in another
•emigrant workers
•emigrants to Canada
compare ↑immigrant

Word Origin:
mid 18th cent.: from Latin emigrant- ‘migrating from’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’.

Example Bank:
•During the reign of Charles I there was a flood of emigrants to North America.
•My grandparents were Italian emigrants who settled in New York in the 1920s.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  emigre, emigree, outgoer