noun. Removal from one country or region to another for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or from one section of the United States to another.

noun. A body of emigrants: as, the Irish emigration.

noun. A going beyond or out of the accustomed place.

noun. 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.

noun. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively.

noun. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.

noun. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

noun. migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

"The provisional IPS estimate of long-term emigration from the UK in the year to June 2009 is 371,000, similar to the 363,000 in the year to June 2008."