emigrant
noun /ˈemɪɡrənt/
/ˈemɪɡrənt/
- a person who leaves their country to live permanently in another
移居外国的人；移民 - emigrant workers
移居国外的工人 - emigrants to Canada
移居加拿大的人 - During the reign of Charles I there was a flood of emigrants to North America.
在查理一世统治时期，有大量移民涌入北美。 - My grandparents were Italian emigrants who settled in New York in the 1920s.
我的祖父母是20世纪20年代定居纽约的意大利移民。
词源mid 18th cent.: from Latin emigrant- ‘migrating from’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’. - emigrant workers