immigrant

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/

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immigrant (plural immigrants)

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.

   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎^[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:

     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.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:

     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.

   • 2001, South African Law Commission, Review of the Child Care Act, page 1123:

     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.

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], number Summer 2019:

     [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.

2. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

• emigrant

immigrant (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

• expatriate

• Marmiting

• IPA^(key): /immiˈɡɾan/
• Syllabification: im‧mi‧grant
• Rhymes: -an

immigrant m

1. immigrant

immigrant

1. immigrant

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.miˈɣɾan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [im.miˈɣɾant]

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

immigrant

1. gerund of immigrar

From Latin immigrans.

• IPA^(key): [imiˈɡʁɑnˀd]

immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)

1. immigrant

   Synonym: indvandrer

• “immigrant” in Den Danske Ordbog

From immigreren +‎ -ant.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪ.miˈɣrɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: im‧migrant

immigrant m (plural immigranten, diminutive immigrantje n, feminine immigrante)

1. immigrant

• “immigrant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

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immigrant

1. present participle of immigrer

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)

1. (relational) immigrant

• “immigrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

immigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

From Latin immigrans.

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigranter, definite plural immigrantene)

1. an immigrant

• innvandrer

• “immigrant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “immigrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin immigrans.

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigrantar, definite plural immigrantane)

1. an immigrant

• innvandrar

• “immigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

immigrant c

1. an immigrant

   Synonym: invandrare

   Antonyms: emigrant, utvandrare

• immigration
• immigrera

• asylsökande (“asylum seeker”)
• migration

• immigrant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)