immigrant

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

immigrant (plural immigrants)

1. A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎, 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, 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.

Antonyms

• emigrant

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

immigrant (not comparable)

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

See also

• expatriate

Anagrams

• Marmiting

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Verb

immigrant

1. gerund of immigrar

Danish

Noun

immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)

1. immigrant

   Synonym: indvandrer

Declension

Further reading

• “immigrant” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From immigreren +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: im‧migrant

Noun

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

1. immigrant

Related terms

• immigreren, immigratie

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Participle

immigrant

1. present participle of immigrer

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

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

1. (relational) immigrant

Further reading

• “immigrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Latin

Verb

immigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

Noun

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

1. an immigrant

Synonyms

• innvandrer

References

• “immigrant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “immigrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

Noun

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

1. an immigrant

Synonyms

• innvandrar

References

• “immigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

immigrant c

1. an immigrant

   Synonym: invandrare

   Antonyms: emigrant, utvandrare

Declension

Related terms

• immigration
• immigrera

See also

• asylsökande (“asylum seeker”)
• migration

References

• immigrant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)