adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.

   "Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants."

2. 2
   a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there wordnet
3. 3
   A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating. not-comparable

Synonyms

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alienarrivalarrivistecitizencitizen by adoptioncolonial

Antonyms

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citizennativeemigrant

Example

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"She fell in love with a Russian immigrant."

Etymology

From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).

Related phrases

anti-immigrantdigital immigranteconomic immigrantillegal immigrantimmigrant specieslanded immigrantnew immigrantundocumented immigrant

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