US /ˈɪməˌgreɪt/ UK /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
verb Freq #67502

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    To come to live permanently in a country that is not your own.

    Her grandparents immigrated to the United States in the 1950s.

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Forms immigratedimmigratesimmigrating

Etymology

From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

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