immigrant
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Etymology edit
From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).
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immigrant (plural immigrants)
- A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
- 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants[1], 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.
- 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents[2], 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.
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immigrant (not comparable)
- Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
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immigrant m (plural immigrants)
Adjective edit
immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)
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immigrant
Danish edit
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immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)
- immigrant
- Synonym: indvandrer
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common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | immigrant | immigranten | immigranter | immigranterne |
genitive | immigrants | immigrantens | immigranters | immigranternes |
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Etymology edit
From immigreren + -ant.
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Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: im‧migrant
Noun edit
immigrant m (plural immigranten, diminutive immigrantje n, feminine immigrante)
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Audio: (file)
Participle edit
immigrant
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immigrant m (plural immigrants)
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immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)
Further reading edit
- “immigrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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immigrant
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigranter, definite plural immigrantene)
- an immigrant
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- “immigrant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “immigrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
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immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigrantar, definite plural immigrantane)
- an immigrant
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- “immigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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immigrant c
- an immigrant
- Synonym: invandrare
- Antonyms: emigrant, utvandrare
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Declension of immigrant | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | immigrant | immigranten | immigranter | immigranterna |
Genitive | immigrants | immigrantens | immigranters | immigranternas |
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- asylsökande (“asylum seeker”)
- migration
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