Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Immigrating; having immigrated.
  • noun One who or that which immigrates, as a person, an animal, or a plant; specifically, a person who migrates into a country for the purpose of permanent residence: correlative to emigrant, as strictly used.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
  • noun A person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle in the new country.
  • noun A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

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Examples

  • It is important of course to note that the term immigrant at that time was racially defined so that While people were not immigrants but were either settlers or foreigners.

    South Africa is unfair to Other Africans 2008

  • He has expressed his pleasure with the leading U.S. presidential candidates 'views on immigration reform and the amnesty they support and his displeasure to "The New York Times" about what he calls immigrant bashing in America.

    CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008 2008

  • DOBBS: Illegal aliens and their supporters say they are marching today in support of what they call immigrant rights.

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2006 2006

  • Those protesters say they are marching for what they call immigrant rights, but the illegal alien lobby is manipulating the language of these protests and demonstrations for much wider and often hidden political purposes.

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2006 2006

  • Your immigrant is an asset, not merely because he represents a certain amount of brains and sinew, but because all that is good in him urges him to pay that debt to Canada.

    Anti-Semitism 1939

  • My Grandfather earned the title "immigrant" and later "American" because he embraced his new home country and contributed to it.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Critics conveniently connect the word 'immigrant' with the word 'illegal' when talking about the Welcome Dayton plan, but that's not what this initiative is all about," City Manager Tim Riordan said in a news release.

    CNN.com 2011

  • Eventually, we expect to become citizens of Mexico, so "immigrant" is more appropriate.

    Expat or Immigrant? 2007

  • Eventually, we expect to become citizens of Mexico, so "immigrant" is more appropriate.

    Expat or Immigrant? 2007

  • Eventually, we expect to become citizens of Mexico, so "immigrant" is more appropriate.

    Expat or Immigrant? 2007

  • scendantBlacks are those who are the sons and daughters of two American-born Blackparents, as determined by the application of the one-drop rule at the time collegesand universities commenced affirmative action programs.3 When affirmativeaction was created, this was the presumed group of Black people who wouldmake up its beneficiaries. We will distinguish Ascendant Blacks from threeoverlapping successive racial and ethnic groups of Black law students:• “Black Multiracials” – those who self-identify as two or moreraces, with one being Black;4• “Black Hispanics”—those who self-identify as Black andHispanic or Latino; and• “Black Immigrants” - those with some Black ancestry who haveat least one foreign born Black parent.

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