B2nounsociety
US/ˈɪm.ɪ.ɡrənt/
UK/ˈɪm.ɪ.ɡrənt/
a person who has come to live permanently in a country that is not their own
In context
Her grandparents arrived in California as immigrants with almost no money.
Many Vietnamese immigrants in Germany first came as contract workers in the 1980s.
The city's restaurants owe a lot to the immigrant communities that opened them.
Words that go with immigrant
adjective + noun
- illegal immigrantThe term illegal immigrant is now avoided by many newspapers.
- recent immigrantFree language classes are offered to every recent immigrant.
- first-generation immigrantAs a first-generation immigrant, he worked two jobs to pay for his children's school.
noun + noun
- immigrant communityThe festival celebrates the city's large immigrant community.
- immigrant workerImmigrant workers make up a third of the farm's staff.