Immigrant - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈɪmɪɡrənt|  American pronunciation of the word immigrant
Brit.  |ˈɪmɪɡr(ə)nt|  British pronunciation of the word immigrant

noun

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

Extra examples

Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe in the 19th century.

The city has a large immigrant population.

...an immigrant family that must condition its traditional attitudes regarding child rearing to the realities of modern American life...

...though they had lived in their adopted country for many years, the immigrant families never broke their ties with the fatherland entirely...

Later it emerged that the judge had employed an illegal immigrant.

The novel gives a rounded picture of life as an illegal immigrant in the U.S.

The government tried to disenfranchise some of immigrant groups.

The novel realistically depicts immigrant life at the beginning of the last century

The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard

The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone

Word forms

noun
singular: immigrant
plural: immigrants
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