immigrant
See also: Immigrant
English
Etymology
From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
immigrant (plural immigrants)
- A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
- 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants, 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.
- 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, 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.
- A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
person who comes to a country to settle
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plant or animal
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Anagrams
Catalan
Danish
Noun
immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)
- immigrant
- Synonym: indvandrer
Declension
Declension of immigrant
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | immigrant | immigranten | immigranter | immigranterne |
genitive | immigrants | immigrantens | immigranters | immigranternes |
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
From immigreren + -ant.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: im‧migrant
Related terms
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)
- (relational) immigrant
Further reading
- “immigrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigranter, definite plural immigrantene)
- an immigrant
Synonyms
References
- “immigrant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “immigrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigrantar, definite plural immigrantane)
- an immigrant
Synonyms
References
- “immigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Declension
Declension of immigrant | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | immigrant | immigranten | immigranter | immigranterna |
Genitive | immigrants | immigrantens | immigranters | immigranternas |
Related terms
See also
- asylsökande (“asylum seeker”)
- migration
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