émigrant
French, noun/e.mi.ɡʁɑ̃/
émigrant is spelled É-M-I-G-R-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émigrant is a French masculine noun meaning “emigrant, migrator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of émigrer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui quitte ou a quitté volontairement son pays d’origine pour séjourner dans un autre”.
What does émigrant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
migrating
Une troupe émigrante.
noun
- 1
masculineemigrant, migrator
Le nom du Bronx provient de Jonas Bronck, un émigrant suédois qui fut le premier à coloniser cette zone.
verb
- 1
present participle of émigrer
Exodus 1947 est un bateau qui transporta en 1947 des Juifs émigrant clandestinement d'Europe vers la Palestine.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui émigre.
noun: 1. Celui qui quitte ou a quitté volontairement son pays d’origine pour séjourner dans un autre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of émigrant
- émigrante feminine
- émigrants masculine plural
- émigrantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émigrant?
- /e.mi.ɡʁɑ̃/
- \e.mi.ɡʁɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émigrant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émigrant in French?
émigrant appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).