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immigrant

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im·mi·grant  (m-grnt)
n.
1. A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.
2. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
adj.
Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

immigrant
Noun
a person who comes to a foreign country in order to settle there
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.immigrantimmigrant - a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
migrant, migrator - traveler who moves from one region or country to another

immigrant
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Spanish immigrant [ˈɪmɪgrənt] ninmigrante m/f
French immigrant [ˈɪmɪgrənt] nimmigrant(e);
(already established) → immigré(e)

German immigrant [ˈɪmɪgrənt] nEinwanderer m, Einwanderin f
Italian immigrant [ˈɪmɪgrənt] nimmigrante m/f;
(already established) → immigrato/a

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Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in the immigrant car ahead there was a family from `across the water' whose destination was the same as ours.
A few immigrant wagons, diverted from the highways of travel by the fame of the new diggings, halted upon the slopes of Devil's Spur and on the arid flats of the Ford, and disgorged their sallow freight of alkali-poisoned, prematurely-aged women and children and maimed and fever-stricken men.
Butler, and by Andrew Carnegie, who, from a poor immigrant boy had arisen to be the book-giver of the world.
 
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