immigrant

immigrant
emigrant, immigrant, migrant
1. An emigrant is someone who leaves his or her home country to live in another country; and an immigrant is one who comes to live in a country from abroad. The same person is therefore an emigrant on going through the exit gate at a port or airport and is an immigrant when given permission to take up residence in the country of arrival. The corresponding verbs are emigrate and immigrate. (Note one m in emigrant etc. and two ms in immigrant etc.)
2. A migrant is (a) a migrating animal or bird, (b) in Australia and New Zealand, an immigrant, or (c, in full economic migrant) someone who travels from one country or area to another to find work or an improved standard of living. An émigré (French = having emigrated) is a political emigrant, originally one from France during the French Revolution.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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  • Immigrant(in) — Immigrant(in) …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • immigrant — immigrant, ante [ imigrɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] adj. et n. • 1787; de immigrer 1 ♦ Rare Qui immigre. 2 ♦ N. Cour. Personne qui immigre dans un pays ou qui y a immigré récemment. L assimilation des immigrants. ⇒ immigré. ⊗ CONTR. Autochtone. ● immigrant,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • immigrant — im‧mi‧grant [ˈɪmgrənt] noun [countable] someone who comes from abroad to live permanently in another country: • The country has a large immigrant population. compare emigrant * * * immigrant UK US /ˈɪmɪgrənt/ noun [C] ► a person who has come to… …   Financial and business terms

  • Immigrant — Im mi*grant, n. [L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See {Immigrate}.] One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; correlative of emigrant. Syn: See {Emigrant}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • immigrant — index alien (foreign), alien Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 immigrant …   Law dictionary

  • immigrant — (n.) one who immigrates, 1792, in an American context, from Fr. immigrant, from L. immigrantem (nom. immigrans), prp. of immigrare (see IMMIGRATE (Cf. immigrate)). EMIGRANT (Cf. Emigrant) is older. As an adjective from 1805 …   Etymology dictionary

  • Immigránt — (lat.), Einwanderer; Immigration, Einwanderung; immigrieren, einwandern …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Immigrant — Immigrant, Immigration, immigriren, lat. deutsch, Einwanderer, Einwanderung, einwandern …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • immigrant — immigrant, ante (i mmi gran, gran t ) adj. Qui vient s établir dans un pays qui n est pas le sien.    Substantivement, les immigrants …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • Immigrant — er et fremmedord for en indvandrer …   Danske encyklopædi

  • immigrant — n 1 *stranger, alien, foreigner, outlander, outsider, émigré 2 *emigrant …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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