immigrate

UK/ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/US/ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/

verbB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,936 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: immigrated, immigrating, immigrates

To immigrate is to come into a country in order to settle there. Immigrate to Canada, immigrated in 1962, immigrate legally.

It is the same journey as emigrating seen from the other end, and which verb you use says where you are standing. Americans use it far more than the British, who tend to say move to.

Definitions of immigrate

1verbimmigrateTo come into a country in order to settle there.B2+
“His parents immigrated to Canada from Italy when he was a baby.”

immigrate is a moving.

Where it comes from

Latin immigrare means to move into, from in plus migrare, to move.

Latin
immigratus
English, today
immigrate

Built from

immigro · Latin — remove, move into

From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

immigrate in the wild

To address this problem, foreigner labourers were encouraged to immigrate and work near the mines.
Heusden-Zolder
Since 1950, millions of Jews have immigrated to Israel under the Law of Return.
Aliyah
To replace the population, thousands of people from other countries were invited to immigrate to Bergheim.
Bergheim, Haut-Rhin
The majority of people who immigrated at that times were Swiss, German, Hungarian, Austrian, or Romanian.
Bergheim, Haut-Rhin
Recently, smaller groups of Turks have begun to immigrate to Australia from Bulgaria, Greece, Iraq and North Macedonia.
Turkish Australians

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Related words

the immigro family

immigration immigrant

immigrate — used about once every 33,333 pages · #13,936 · point at the bar for the others

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