emigrant
noun
a person who emigrates, such as from their native country or region.
emigrants
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pluralof emigrant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tens of thousands of emigrants from Ireland, desperate to escape the famine ravaging their home country, landed in 1847 at the Grosse Île quarantine station in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The tumult of 20th century Europe saw a new influx of Spaniard emigrants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
Havana announced this week that it would allow Cuban emigrants to invest to address the communist island's severe economic and energy crises.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
Remarkably, there is little to no accurate real-time data about the number of actual emigrants.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025
Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
