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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope