immigrant

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

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

3. 3
   noun

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

4. 4
   adj

   Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

Etymology

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