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Migrant vs Emigrate - What's the difference?

migrant | emigrate |

As a noun migrant

is migrant.

As a verb emigrate is

to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.

migrant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A migratory bird or other animal.
  • Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Migratory.
  • Anagrams

    * * ----

    emigrate

    English

    Verb

    (emigrat)
  • To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
  • * Macaulay
  • Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
  • * J. H. Newman
  • They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

    Antonyms

    * immigrate