immigrant
//ˈɪmɪɡɹənt//
Forms
- Plural
- immigrants
Definitions
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.
- 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.
2.A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
1.Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2320
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”)
From in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).