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. 在查理一世统治期间，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。
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin emigrant- ‘migrating from’, from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + migrare ‘migrate’.