Associations to the word «Emigration»

Wiktionary

EMIGRATION, noun. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
EMIGRATION, noun. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

Dictionary definition

EMIGRATION, noun. Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats