immigrant

US: /ˈɪməɡɹənt/
UK: /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/


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immigrant /'imigrənt/
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    Advanced English dictionary


    + noun
    a person who has come to live permanently in a country that is not their own: illegal immigrants + immigrant communities / families / workers
    Compare: EMIGRANT, MIGRANT

    Thesaurus dictionary


    n.
    newcomer, arrival, settler, Australian migrant; alien, foreigner, outlander, outsider:
    Her parents were immigrants from the Ukraine.

    Collocation dictionary


    ADJ.

    illegal | foreign | Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc. | recent | would-be | first-generation, second-generation
    First-generation immigrants may dream of returning ‘home’; their children say Britain is their home.

    QUANT.

    flood, influx, wave

    VERB + IMMIGRANT

    accept, welcome | deport, return
    ships laden with would-be immigrants who were forcibly returned

    IMMIGRANT + VERB

    arrive, enter sth
    immigrants seeking to enter the country
    | come from sth | settle (sth)
    European immigrants settled much of Australia.

    IMMIGRANT + NOUN

    community, family, group, population | worker | labour

    PREP.

    ~ from, ~ to
    She was the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America.


    Concise English dictionary


    immigrants'ɪmɪgrənt
    noun
    +a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there