Emigrant
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
- 2 someone who leaves one country to settle in another wordnet
- 3 Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.
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More examples"When Mu, the Motherland, became overcrowded, or, among her great navigators, some ambitious and enterprising company found new and available lands, a colonial development was started. These emigrant children of Mu were called Mayas. All who left the Motherland in any direction were called Mayas. Colonization must have started 70,000 years before Mu sank, for there are are Naacal writings in the Orient stating that the Holy Brothers carried the religion and the sciences of the Motherland to the colonies "over 70,000 years ago." One of these colonies was said to "have a population of over 35,000,000 people.""
Etymology
From Classical Latin ēmigrāns, present participle of ēmigrāre (“to emigrate”).
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