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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | DP, displaced person, exile, expatriate, foreigner, migrant, refugee |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| 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: | exile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person deported from a place |
| Synonyms: | DP, deportee, displaced person, expatriate, expellee, fugitive, nonperson, outcast, outlaw, person without country, refugee, émigré |
| Main Entry: | expatriate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person thrown out of a country |
| Synonyms: | departer, deportee, displaced person, emigrant, evacuee, exile, expellee, migrant, outcast, refugee, émigré |
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
| Synonyms: | bolter, derelict, deserter, displaced person, dodger, escapee, escaper, evacuee, exile, fly-by-night, hermit, hunted person, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runagate, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, walkout, émigré |
| Main Entry: | refugee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person running from something, often oppression |
| Synonyms: | DP, alien, boat person, castaway, defector, derelict, deserter, displaced person, emigrant, escapee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, expellee, foreigner, foundling, fugitive, homeless person, leper, maroon, outcast, outlaw, prodigal, renegade, runaway, stateless person, émigré |
| Main Entry: | migrant worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immigrant worker |
| Synonyms: | agricultural laborer, agricultural worker, casual laborer, day laborer, emigrant, farm laborer, farm worker, migrant, rover, émigré |
| Main Entry: | outlander |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreigner |
| Synonyms: | alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, newcomer, outsider, stranger, émigré |
| 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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