Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emigration

Emigration , noun

[Latin emigratio: compare French émigration.]

1.
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.
A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.