Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
2. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
3. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

Example Sentences

Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.

What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.

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.

Hamtramck is described in the resolution as “one of the most diverse cities in the United States.” The city has a large immigrant presence and all the city council members are of the Muslim faith, city manager Max Garbarino told CNN Thursday. Hamtramck was also the first known city in the US to inaugurate an all-Muslim government, CNN previously reported.

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• immigrants

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Use immigrant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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