emigrant
IPA: ˈɛmʌgrʌnt
noun
- Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.
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Examples of "emigrant" in Sentences
- The emigrant has been the theme of song and story.
- An emigrant is both trying to escape something and advance towards another thing at the same time.
- If the German emigrant is slightly superior in the industrial career, in politics he is a cipher by the side of the Irishman.
- Around the word emigrant or immigrant hovers always the idea of an exchange of habits, customs, and language of one country with those of another.
- Around the word emigrant hovers the idea of distance; he comes from far-off countries, from a place which cannot be easily reached, or from which information concerning himself cannot be readily obtained.
- New Trier Township High School on the well-to-do Chicago North Shore, enjoyed a national reputation, and, with a swimming pool, athletic fields, cafeteria, as well as excellent teachers, offered horizons unimaginable to the young emigrant from a small German town.
- In toasting "the women of Nebraska," at the collation, I said: "Here's to the mothers, who came hither by long, tedious journeys, closely packed with restless children in emigrant wagons, cooking the meals by day, and nursing the babies by night, while the men slept.
- Sarah Brooks Sundberg has argued that the substantial contributions of prairie farm women as homemakers, home manufacturers, field hands, wage earners, and teachers was understated by the persistent image of "helpmates" in emigrant promotional literature in the late nineteenth century.
- After seven years 'exile, the hope of return grows feeble, the means are still less in our power, and our friends give up all hope of our return; their letters grow fewer and colder, their expressions of attachment are less vivid; the heart has formed new ties, and the poor emigrant is nearly forgotten.
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