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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | alien |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreign being |
| Synonyms: | blow in, floater, foreigner, greenhorn, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, invader, migrant, newcomer, noncitizen, outsider, refugee, settler, squatter, stranger, visitor, weed* |
| Antonyms: | citizen, countryman, national, native, settler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | émigré |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | DP, displaced person, exile, expatriate, foreigner, migrant, refugee |
| 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: | immigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from a foreign land |
| Synonyms: | adoptive citizen, alien, colonist, documented alien, foreigner, incomer, migrant, naturalized citizen, newcomer, outsider, pioneer, settler, undocumented alien |
| 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: | local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | mobile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | movable, travelling |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, ambulatory, changeable, fluid, free, itinerant, liquid, locomotive, loose, migrant, migratory, motile, motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic, peripatetic, portable, roaming, roving, unsettled, unstable, unstationary, unsteadfast, unsteady, versatile, wandering |
| Antonyms: | fixed, immobile, stable, stationary, unmovable |
| Main Entry: | nomad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who wanders from place to place |
| Synonyms: | hobo, itinerant, migrant, pilgrim, rambler, roamer, rover, vagabond, wanderer, wayfarer |
| Main Entry: | nomadic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itinerant |
| Synonyms: | drifting, gypsy, itinerate, migrant, migratory, pastoral, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, roaming, roving, traveling, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
| Antonyms: | native, settled |
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