Immigrant
['ɪmɪgr(ə)nt] or ['ɪmɪɡrənt]
Definition
(noun.) a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there.
Edited by Allison--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.
Edited by Astor
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
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Examples
- After a while there was a daily immigrant train put on. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The immigrant, on arriving, found himself a stranger, in a strange land, far from friends. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We forget that this is a lonely country for an immigrant and that the Statue of Liberty doesn't shed her light with too much warmth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Another is the recommendation to the city and the nation that it should protect arriving immigrants, and if necessary escort them to their homes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That is why we, the children of frontiersmen, city builders and immigrants, surprise Europe constantly with our worship of constitutions, our social and political timidity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With the influx of German immigrants, who brought with them a game similar to the Dutch game, additional popularity was given to the sport. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Many immigrants live cheaply and well with beans and bread as their main diet. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Any tendency to modification will also have been checked by intercrossing with the unmodified immigrants, often arriving from the mother-country. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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