IMMIGRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immigrant mean? 

• IMMIGRANT (noun)
  The noun IMMIGRANT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: IMMIGRANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMIGRANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("immigrant" is a kind of...):

migrant; migrator (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)

Derivation:

immigrate (come into a new country and change residency)

 Context examples 

As to the Indians I cannot doubt that they are more recent immigrants from below.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Groups can be immigrants (compared with people who are native to the country) or people with different types of jobs.

(Ecologic study, NCI Dictionary)

Hans Nelson, immigrant, Swede by birth and carpenter by occupation, had in him that Teutonic unrest that drives the race ever westward on its great adventure.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The research team said they believe the immigrant bird was native to Española Island, which is located about 100 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of the Galápagos archipelago.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

Given how much of the matter out of which we (are) formed may have come from other galaxies, we could consider ourselves space travelers or extragalactic immigrants, says lead researcher Daniel Anglés-Alcázar.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Renunciation, sacrifice, patience, industry, and high endeavor were the principles she thus indirectly preached—such abstractions being objectified in her mind by her father, and Mr. Butler, and by Andrew Carnegie, who, from a poor immigrant boy had arisen to be the book-giver of the world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Researchers from Princeton University in the United States and Uppsala University in Sweden reported the new species evolved in just two generations, though this process had been believed to take much longer, due to breeding between an endemic Darwin finch, Geospiza fortes, and the immigrant cactus finch, Geospiza conirostris.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)