emigration
NounUS[em-uh-grey-shuhn]/ˌɛməˈɡreɪʃən/4 syllables
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Noun (1)
- migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)Synonyms: out-migrationexpatriationType of migration
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Em′i·gra′tion noun
Origin: L. emigratio: cf. F. émigration.
1. 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.
2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54