immigrant

[ im-i-gruhnt ]

/ ˈɪm ɪ grənt /

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noun

a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

an organism found in a new habitat.

adjective

of or relating to immigrants and immigration: a department for immigrant affairs.

immigrating.

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Origin of immigrant

1780–90, Americanism;<Latin immigrant- (stem of immigrāns), present participle of immigrāre to move into. See im-¹, migrant

OTHER WORDS FROM immigrant

non·im·mi·grant, noun, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH immigrant

emigrant, immigrant , migrant

How to use immigrant in a sentence

Opponents of Muslims and immigrants across the continent are claiming vindication in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
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Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx.
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No one who lives in an American city requires a flashlight to detect the presence of immigrants or the challenges they face daily.
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In particular, it applies to immigrants who lost their U.S. citizenship after their involvement in World War II was discovered.
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Christian is the son of Mexican immigrants whose father works at a car wash and mother works at McDonalds.
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So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.
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Immigrants in the first generation have just about as much feeling for the American flag as a chicken has for Rosewater.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Two thousand and seventy-four immigrants arrived in the steerage at New York.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
During the week closing with this day, 21,297 immigrants arrived at the port of Quebec, Lower Canada.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
A million immigrants came from impoverished Europe in the four succeeding years, begging for freedom and a place to live.
David Lannarck, Midget|George S. Harney

British Dictionary definitions for immigrant

immigrant

/ (ˈɪmɪɡrənt) /

noun

a person who comes to a country in order to settle thereCompare emigrant
(as modifier)an immigrant community

an animal or plant that lives or grows in a region to which it has recently migrated

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