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Definition of: emigrant
(em′ə·grənt) adjective
Moving from one place or country for the purpose of settling in another: opposed to immigrant.
—noun
1. A person who leaves one country, or section of a country, to settle in another.
2. A person from the eastern United States who went west to settle new lands. [<L emigrans, -antis, ppr. of emigrare. See EMIGRATE.]
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