Immigrant

Quick meaning: Immigrant is a noun meaning A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
2. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

Example Sentences

Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.

The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.

However, an accompanied undocumented immigrant child should not be removed from his or her family , unless there are grounds for removal in terms of section 14(4) of the Child Care Act, 1983.

[Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.

Word Forms

• immigrants

Antonyms for immigrant

Common opposites include emigrant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include emigration, emigrant, immigration, immigrate, migration, migratory.

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