immigrant
UK /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/ US /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
noun 2adj 1
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
adj
1
Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
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