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immigrant

UK/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/US/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,789 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: immigrants

An immigrant is a person who has moved into a new country to live there. A recent immigrant, immigrant families, immigrant workers.

The same person is an emigrant leaving and an immigrant arriving, and which word is used says where the speaker stands. Migrant covers both and is the neutral term. The Latin means to move in.

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Definitions of immigrant

  1. 1nounimmigrantA person who has moved into a new country to live.B2

    “Her grandparents came to America as immigrants from Italy.”

immigrant is a person.

Where it comes from

Latin immigrans is the present participle of immigrare, to move into, from in- plus migrare, to move.

  1. Latin

    immigrans

  2. English, today

    immigrant

Built from

  • immigrō · Latin — to migrate into

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Travel & Transport

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immigrant in the wild

  • Enclaves can help to explain the success of some immigrant groups.

    Ethnic enclave

  • Many other languages are used by New Zealand's minority immigrant communities.

    Languages of New Zealand

  • Another Pew report estimated that about 9% of all births in 2023 were to unauthorized or temporary legal immigrant mothers.

    Undocumented immigrant population of the United States

  • First-generation immigrants are the first foreign-born family members to gain citizenship or permanent residency in the country.

    Immigrant generations

  • People beyond the first generation are not "immigrants" in the strictest sense of the word and, depending on local laws, may have received citizenship from birth.

    Immigrant generations

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the immigrō family

immigrationimmigrant

immigrant — used about once every 2,152 pages · #6,789 · point at the bar for the others