Bible Dictionaries
Emigration

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.

(2):

(n.) A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Emigration'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/emigration.html. 1828.