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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | alien, colonist, departer, displaced person, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, migrator, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, émigré |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | nationalist, native |
| Main Entry: | migrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who moves to a foreign place |
| Synonyms: | departer, drifter, emigrant, evacuee, expatriate, gypsy, immigrant, itinerant, migrator, mover, nomad, rover, tinker, transient, traveler, vagrant, wanderer |
| Main Entry: | transmigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | alien, colonist, departer, displaced person, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fugitive, immigrant, migrant, migrator, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, émigré |
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