immigrant

[ im-i-gruh nt ]

/ 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.

Words nearby immigrant

immersionism, immersive, immesh, immethodical, immie, immigrant, immigrate, immigration, immigration and nationality act, imminence, imminent

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

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Examples from the Web for immigrants

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.
Forget the Kids Who Can’t Get In; What About Those Who Don’t Even Apply?|Jonah Edelman|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In these four primary characteristics the Jewish immigrants stand apart from all the others.
Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910|Samuel Joseph
The immigrants were not suffered to sit in idleness all that afternoon.
South from Hudson Bay|E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill
She wondered if the immigrants crowded around it would have been as glad to see their distant homes again as she was to see hers.
The Wyndam Girls|Marion Ames Taggart
The economic status of the Japanese appears to be about the same as that of European immigrants.
Japan and the California Problem|Toyokichi Iyenaga
It was then the turn of the English to have disastrous sickness among their immigrants.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton

British Dictionary definitions for immigrants

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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immigrant

noun

adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for immigrants

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