Definition of "emigrant" []

• One that emigrates. (noun)
• Of or relating to emigrants or the act of emigrating. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "An emigrant is both trying to escape something and advance towards another thing at the same time."
• "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."