immigrant

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  1. noun A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.
  2. noun A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
  3. adjective Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

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  • Flor Crisostomo, a Latin American immigrant arrested in 2006 on immigration charges,
  • Clearly a different kind of immigrant -- the pre-revolution exiled aristocracy returning to France after the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbons. —  Word Wenches
  • The Chinese immigrant is accused of the second-degree murder last summer of Tim McLean, a —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • But as grisly Third World trends including sex-selective abortion and distasteful Islamic marriage practices thrive in American immigrant communities, they are ignored because failing to ignore them would leave critics vulnerable to accusations of racism, however faint or groundless. —  National Review Online
  • Global Attitudes Project reports anti-immigrant, and especially anti-Muslim sentiments, to be growing steadily across the continent. —  Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
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  1. = French immigrant = Spanish inmigrante = Portuguese immigrante, from Latin immigran(t-)s, present participle of immigrare, remove into: see immigrate.
 

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/ˈɪmɪgrənt/
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