Moving from one place or country to another for the purpose of settling there: as, an emigrant family: used with reference to the country from which the movement takes place. See immigrant.Pertaining to emigration or emigrants: as, an emigrant ship.n. One who removes his habitation from one place to another for settlement; specifically, one who quits one country or region to settle in another.n. In biology, one of a generation of parthenogenetic insects which migrate from the plant upon which they were born to a plant of another kind upon which they multiply.