immigrant
A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
Other meanings
A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
Related words
- anti-immigrant
- nonimmigrant
- trimmigrant
- digital immigrant
- new immigrant
- antiimmigrant
- immigrant species
- crimmigrant
- economic immigrant
- Euroimmigrant
- illegal immigrant
- landed immigrant
Word history
From Latin "immigrans".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “immigrant” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.