# immigrant

Pronunciation: US say "IM-i-gruhnt" /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/; UK

## Noun

1. A person who comes from another country to settle permanently in a new one.
   - Simple: Someone who moves to a new country to live there for good.
   - _The city welcomed thousands of immigrants fleeing the famine._
   - _As a recent immigrant, she navigated unfamiliar tax forms with help from her neighbors._
3. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it did not previously occur.
   - Simple: A plant or animal that moves into a place where it did not live before.
   - _The zebra mussel is a notorious immigrant in the Great Lakes._
   - _Ecologists documented how the immigrant outcompeted native grasses for light._

## Adjective

2. Relating to immigrants or to the process of immigrating.
   - Simple: Having to do with immigrants or with moving to a new country to live.
   - _The new law expanded immigrant rights across several states._
   - _Researchers studied immigrant communities along the coast for a decade._

## Origin

From Latin immigrans, the present active participle of immigrare ("to migrate into"), formed from in- ("into") and migrare ("to migrate").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/immigrant (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).