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immigrant(dictionary)
illegal immigrant(dictionary)
Immigrant Visa(law)

immigrant (iou)



immigrant noun & adjective. L18.
[Latin immigrant- pres. ppl stem of immigrare, after EMIGRANT: see IMMIGRATE.]
A. noun.
A person who settles as a permanent resident in a different country. Also (esp. in Britain), a descendant of such a person. L18.
LANDED immigrant.
E. Wilson The immigrants from feudalism and famine in Europe were finding in the crowded American cities new misery.
Biology etc. An animal or plant living or growing in a region to which it has migrated; a cell growing in tissue into which it has moved. L19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to immigrants; that is an immigrant. E19.
Times There was some criticism..at this high proportion of immigrant children. P. Roth My immigrant grandparents...coming, at the turn of the century, to America.