emigrant

«emigrant» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who leaves their own country to live in another… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an emigrant, emigrants)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who leaves their own country to live in another country. tree →

2) Emigrant can also be used as a describing word for people who are leaving their own country, such as emigrant families. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons, emigrants leave home because of poverty, war or for new chances, such as Irish emigrants in the Great Famine of the 1840s or British emigrants to Australia; phrases: «Irish emigrants», «emigrants to America».

examples

• Many Irish emigrants sailed to America during the famine. tree →
• My great-grandparents were emigrants from Italy. tree →
• The emigrants waved goodbye to their village. tree →
• Emigrants often send money home to their families. tree →
• Ships full of emigrants arrived in New York. tree →
• Ten-pound Poms were British emigrants to Australia. tree →
• I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship for America, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them. tree →

note

Trap: an emigrant LEAVES a country (exit = e), an immigrant COMES INTO a country (in = im). The same person is both: an emigrant from Ireland and an immigrant to Canada. Verb: emigrate.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «emigrant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.