immigrant

Substantiv

1. 1

   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.

   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.

   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.

   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.

2. 2

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

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

Formen

Plural

immigrants