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immigrant

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
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  • CMU ARPABET: IH1 M AH0 G R AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: migrant, migrator

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Albanian: mërgimtar — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Albanian: imigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Amharic: ስደተኛ (sədätäña) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Arabic: مُهَاجِر (muhājir) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Arabic: مُهَاجِرَة (muhājira) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Armenian: ներգաղթյալ (nergaġtʻyal) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Azerbaijani: immiqrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Azerbaijani: mühacir — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Basque: etorkin — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Belarusian: імігра́нт (imihránt) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Belarusian: імігра́нтка (imihrántka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Belarusian: перасяле́нец (pjerasjaljénjec) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Belarusian: перасяле́нка (pjerasjaljénka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Bengali: অভিবাসী (obhibaśi) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Bengali: নাজিহ্ (najiho) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Bulgarian: имигра́нт (imigránt) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Bulgarian: имигра́нтка (imigrántka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Bulgarian: пресе́лник (presélnik) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Bulgarian: пресе́лничка (presélnička) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Catalan: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Chinese Cantonese: 移民 (ji4 man4) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 移民 (yímín) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 移民者 (yímínzhě) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Czech: přistěhovalec — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Czech: přistěhovalkyně — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Czech: imigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Czech: imigrantka — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Danish: indvandrer — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Danish: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Dutch: inwijkeling — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Dutch: ingewekene — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Dutch: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Esperanto: enmigrinto — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Estonian: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Estonian: sisserändaja — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Finnish: siirtolainen — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Finnish: maahanmuuttaja — person who comes to a country to settle
  • French: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • French: immigrante — person who comes to a country to settle
  • French: immigré — person who comes to a country to settle
  • French: immigrée — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Galician: inmigrante — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Georgian: იმიგრანტი (imigranṭi) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • German: Einwanderer — person who comes to a country to settle
  • German: Einwanderin — person who comes to a country to settle
  • German: Immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • German: Immigrantin — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Greek: μετανάστης (metanástis) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Hebrew: מְהַגֵּר (m'hagér) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Hebrew: מְהַגֶּרֶת (m'hagéret) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Hindi: आप्रवासी (āpravāsī) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Hindi: मुहाजिर (muhājir) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Hungarian: bevándorló — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Icelandic: innflytjandi — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Indonesian: imigran — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Indonesian: pendatang — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Indonesian: orang pindah — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Irish: inimirceach — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Italian: immigrante — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Japanese: 移民 (imin) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Japanese: 移住者 (ijūsha) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Kazakh: келімсек (kelımsek) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Khmer: ជនអន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (cŭən ʼɑntaoprɑveeh) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Khmer: អន្តោប្រវេសន្ត (ʼɑntaoprɑveesɑn) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Khmer: ជននិគម (cŭən nikum) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Korean: 이민 (imin) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Korean: 이민자 (iminja) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Korean: 이주자 (ijuja) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Northern Kurdish: koçber — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Northern Kurdish: mihacir — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Kyrgyz: иммигрант (immigrant) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Lao: ຄົນເຂົ້າເມືອງ (khon khao mư̄ang) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Latvian: imigrants — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Latvian: ieceļotājs — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Lithuanian: imigrantas — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Macedonian: доселеник (doselenik) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Macedonian: доселеничка (doselenička) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Macedonian: имигра́нт (imigránt) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Macedonian: имигра́нтка (imigrántka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Macedonian: преселник (preselnik) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Macedonian: преселничка (preselnička) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Malay: pendatang — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Mongolian: цагаач (cagaač) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Mongolian: нүүсэн (nüüsen) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Mongolian: шилжсэн (šilžsen) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Mongolian: цагаачлагч (cagaačlagč) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: innvandrer — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: innvandrar — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Occitan: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Occitan: immigranta — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Pashto: مهاجر (mohāǰér) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Persian: مهاجر (mohâjer) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Plautdietsch: Immigraunt — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Polish: imigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Polish: imigrantka — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Portuguese: imigrante — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Romanian: imigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Romanian: imigrantă — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Russian: иммигра́нт (immigránt) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Russian: иммигра́нтка (immigrántka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Russian: переселе́нец (pereselénec) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Russian: переселе́нка (pereselénka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Scottish Gaelic: in-imriche — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: досељѐнӣк — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: досељѐница — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: имѝгрант — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: имѝгранткиња — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: doseljènīk — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: doseljènica — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: imìgrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Serbo-Croatian: imìgrantkinja — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovak: prisťahovalec — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovak: prisťahovalkyňa — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovak: imigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovak: imigrantka — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovene: priseljenec — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovene: priseljenka — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovene: imigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Slovene: imigrantka — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Spanish: inmigrante — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Swedish: invandrare — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Swedish: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Tagalog: manunuludbayan — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Tajik: муҳоҷир (muhojir) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Thai: ผู้อพยพ (pûu-òp-pá-yóp) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Tibetan: གཞིས་ཆགས་ལ་ཡོང་པའི་མི (gzhis chags la yong pa'i mi) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Turkish: göçmen — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Turkish: muhacir — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Turkmen: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Ukrainian: іммігра́нт (immihránt) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Ukrainian: іммігра́нтка (immihrántka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Ukrainian: переселе́нець (pereselénecʹ) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Ukrainian: переселе́нка (pereselénka) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Urdu: مہاجر (muhājir) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Uyghur: كۆچمەن (köchmen) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Uzbek: immigrant — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Uzbek: muhojir — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Vietnamese: dân nhập cư — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Vietnamese: nhập cư — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Volapük: nütevan — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Volapük: hinütevan — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Volapük: jinütevan — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Volapük: nütevanef — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Volapük: hinütevanef — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Volapük: jinütevanef — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Welsh: mewnfudwr — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Yiddish: אימיגראַנט (imigrant) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Yiddish: אײַנוואַנדערער (aynvanderer) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Yiddish: אײַנגעוואַנדערטער (ayngevanderter) — person who comes to a country to settle
  • Japanese: 帰化植物 (kika shokubutsu) — plant or animal
  • Japanese: 外来動物 (gairai dōbutsu) — plant or animal
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