remigrant
- noun
- /ˈriːmaɪɡrənt/
:
remigrante
- After years of living in the United States, Maria finally returned to Mexico as a remigrant to reconnect with her family and heritage.
Examples
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In Finland, Latvia, and Norway, remigrants became their countries' top leaders.
Academic text (1996) -
An introduction to American democracy by way of a twelve-hour day in a steel mill did little to dissipate the remigrant's dream of acquiring land back home and aspiring to become a village landowner.
Academic text (1996) -
Some were obviously remigrants.
Academic text (1993) -
Most of the eastbound passengers were, in the opinion of Larsen, remigrants.
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Remigrants, heavily male, were in effect sojourners who never left their homelands.
Academic text (1996) -
Doubtless, industry in its most expansive and oppressive era exacted a disproportionate human toll from remigrants, its most vulnerable victims.
Academic text (1996) -
The government welcomed remigrants who had left during the war and now wished to come back and rebuild their lives.
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Many remigrants face challenges adjusting to their home country after spending several years abroad.
Synonyms
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4.4
A person who comes back to their home country after living abroad
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2.8
A person who comes back to a job or home after being away
A person who has come back to their own country
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Remigrant is made of re- 'again' and migrant 'a person who moves', so a remigrant is a person who has 'moved back again' to their country of origin.