immigrant

Pluralimmigrants

1. 1
   nouncountable

   Someone who moves to a new country to live there for good.

   Like a family that moves into a new town and stays to build a life there: but across a country's border.

   Every immigrant in the class had a story about leaving home.

   Many immigrants open small businesses in their new towns.

   Similarnewcomer, migrant, settler, incomer

   Oppositenative

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2. 2
   adjective

   Having to do with immigrants or with moving to a new country to live.

   The school runs special immigrant programs for new students.

   Immigrant families often celebrate holidays from two cultures.

   Similarmigrant

   Oppositenative

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A plant or animal that moves into a place where it did not live before.

   Like a new kind of weed that pops up in a garden where it never grew before.

   The rabbit was an immigrant that quickly spread across the new island.

   Some immigrants, like certain beetles, change the local food chain.

   Similarinvader, colonist, alien, exotic

   Oppositenative

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