immigrant

/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/

noun 2adj 1

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(noun.)

ADJ

illegal | foreign | Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc. | recent | would-be

first-generation, second-generation

Many second-generation immigrants feel equally connected to both their parents' country and the place where they were born.

QUANT

flood, influx, wave

VERB + IMMIGRANT

accept, welcome

deport, return

The government decided to deport the undocumented immigrants back to their home country.

IMMIGRANT + VERB

arrive, enter sth

Many immigrants arrived in the city last year hoping to find better jobs.

come from sth

settle (sth)

Many immigrants settled in the city because there were more job opportunities there.

IMMIGRANT + NOUN

community, family, group, population | worker | labour

PREP

~ from, ~ to

Many immigrants from Poland settled in this neighborhood during the early 1900s.

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

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.

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Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

She fell in love with a Russian immigrant.

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I'm only an immigrant trying to protect the English language from its native speakers.

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I sympathize with my friend who says that she's only an immigrant trying to protect the English language from its native speakers.

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