# immigrant
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

immigrant (plural immigrants)
* A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
    Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.
** 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.
** 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.
** 2001, South African Law Commission, Review of the Child Care Act, page 1123:However, an accompanied undocumented immigrant child should not be removed from his or her family , unless there are grounds for removal in terms of section 14(4) of the Child Care Act, 1983.
** 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎, number Summer 2019:[Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
* A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

#### Antonyms

* emigrant

#### Derived terms

* antiimmigrant
* crimmigrant
* digital immigrant
* economic immigrant
* Euroimmigrant
* illegal immigrant
* landed immigrant
* new immigrant
* undocumented immigrant

#### Translations

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### Adjective

immigrant (not comparable)
* Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

### See also

* expatriate

### Anagrams

* Marmiting

## Aragonese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /immiˈɡɾan/
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: im‧mi‧grant

### Noun

immigrant m
* immigrant

### Adjective

immigrant
* immigrant

### References

* Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [im.miˈɣɾan]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [im.miˈɣɾant]

### Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)
* immigrant

### Adjective

immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)
* immigrant

### Verb

immigrant
* gerund of immigrar

## Danish
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)
* immigrant
    Synonym: indvandrer

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “immigrant” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

From immigreren +‎ -ant.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: im‧migrant

### Noun

immigrant m (plural immigranten, diminutive immigrantje n, feminine immigrante)
* immigrant

#### Related terms

* immigreren, immigratie

### Further reading

* “immigrant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Participle

immigrant
* present participle of immigrer

### Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)
* immigrant

### Adjective

immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)
* (relational) immigrant

### Further reading

* “immigrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

immigrant
* third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

### Noun

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigranter, definite plural immigrantene)
* an immigrant

#### Synonyms

* innvandrer

### References

* “immigrant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “immigrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

### Noun

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigrantar, definite plural immigrantane)
* an immigrant

#### Synonyms

* innvandrar

### References

* “immigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Noun

immigrant c
* an immigrant
    Synonym: invandrare
    Antonyms: emigrant, utvandrare

#### Related terms

* immigration
* immigrera

#### See also

* asylsökande (“asylum seeker”)
* migration

### References

* immigrant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)