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emigrant

Noun B1 – Intermediate

A person who leaves their own country to live permanently in another.

"Her grandfather was an emigrant from a small village in the mountains."

"Emigrant" describes someone leaving a country, while "immigrant" describes the same person arriving in a new one; the two words describe one act from opposite ends.