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immigrant

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) +‎ migrāre (“to migrate”).

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Noun

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immigrant (plural immigrants)

  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.
    • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:
      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.
    • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎[2], number Summer 2019:
      [Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
  2. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

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Adjective

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immigrant (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

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Aragonese

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /immiˈɡɾan/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: im‧mi‧grant

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immigrant m

  1. immigrant

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immigrant

  1. immigrant

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Catalan

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Noun

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immigrant m (plural immigrants)

  1. immigrant

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immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)

  1. immigrant

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immigrant

  1. gerund of immigrar

Danish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)

  1. immigrant
    Synonym: indvandrer

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Declension of immigrant
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative immigrant immigranten immigranter immigranterne
genitive immigrants immigrantens immigranters immigranternes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From immigreren +‎ -ant.

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: im‧migrant

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immigrant m (plural immigranten, diminutive immigrantje n, feminine immigrante)

  1. immigrant
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  • “immigrant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

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Participle

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immigrant

  1. present participle of immigrer

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immigrant m (plural immigrants)

  1. immigrant

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immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)

  1. (relational) immigrant

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Latin

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Verb

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immigrant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin immigrans.

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immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigranter, definite plural immigrantene)

  1. an immigrant

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin immigrans.

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immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigrantar, definite plural immigrantane)

  1. an immigrant

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Swedish

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Noun

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immigrant c

  1. an immigrant
    Synonym: invandrare
    Antonyms: emigrant, utvandrare

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Declension of immigrant
nominative genitive
singular indefinite immigrant immigrants
definite immigranten immigrantens
plural indefinite immigranter immigranters
definite immigranterna immigranternas
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