Emigration
[,emɪ'greɪʃn] or [,ɛmə'greʃən]
Definition
(noun.) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another).
Typist: Stacey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.
(n.) A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Migration, removal, exodus.[2]. Body of emigrants.
Typist: Marvin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exodus, colonization, flit
ANT:Abode, sojourn, settlement, stay, domiciliation, immigration
Editor: Ronda
Examples
- In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. Plato. The Republic.
- The greater part thought it a judgment of God, to prevent or punish our emigration from our native land. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My aunt mused a little while, and then said: 'Mr. Micawber, I wonder you have never turned your thoughts to emigration. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He was the heir of the rich and spirituelle Miss Crawley, whose house had been open to so many of the French noblesse during the emigration. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There seems to be a theory of emigration suggested there. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It appeared to him that emigration, had he only the means to emigrate, would be preferable to service under such a master. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The emigration still continued, and wherever families could find means of departure, they fled. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In this emigration, I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident, and knew not how to re-produce it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Benjamin, born at Boston, twenty-one years after his father's emigration, was the youngest of ten sons, all of whom wer e eventually apprenticed to trades. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He had the most extraordinary notions about this European exodus and came at last to consider the whole nation as packing up for emigration to France. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He hastened to take me aside, and disclosed to me with rapidity his plan of emigration from England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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