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| Main Entry: |
immigrant
 [im-i-gruhnt] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from a foreign land |
| Synonyms: | adoptive citizen, alien, colonist, documented alien, foreigner, incomer, migrant, naturalized citizen, newcomer, outsider, pioneer, settler, undocumented alien |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | local, national, native |
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| Main Entry: | foreigner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from another country |
| Synonyms: | alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, newcomer, outlander, outsider, stranger |
| Antonyms: | citizen, local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | migrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who moves to a foreign place |
| Synonyms: | departer, drifter, emigrant, evacuee, expatriate, gypsy, immigrant, itinerant, migrator, mover, nomad, rover, tinker, transient, traveler, vagrant, wanderer |
Example Sentences
- But immigrants are people and they deserve a chance to move to maximise the return to their skills.
- Immigrants at sea will often refuse to be rescued because rescue can mean detention or deportation.
- In many cases, immigrants also pay more in taxes than they cost in public spending.
| Main Entry: | newcomer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who has just arrived in area |
| Synonyms: | Johnny-come-lately, alien, arrival, beginner, blow-in, colt, foreigner, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, late arrival, latecomer, maverick, neophyte, new kid on the block, novice, novitiate, outsider, rookie, settler, stranger, tenderfoot |
| Antonyms: | native, old hack |
| Main Entry: | pioneer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who finds a new place, founds something |
| Synonyms: | colonist, colonizer, developer, explorer, founder, frontier settler, guide, homesteader, immigrant, innovator, leader, pathfinder, pilgrim, scout, settler, squatter, trailblazer |
| Main Entry: | stranger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unfamiliar |
| Synonyms: | alien, drifter, foreign body, foreigner, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, itinerant person, migrant, migratory worker, new arrival, newcomer, out-of-stater, outcomer, outlander, outsider, party crasher, perfect stranger, squatter, transient, uninvited person, unknown, unknown person, visitor, wanderer |
| Antonyms: | acquaintance, friend, local, native |
| Main Entry: | settler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pioneer |
| Synonyms: | colonist, colonizer, homesteader, immigrant |
| Main Entry: | settler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | colonizer |
| Synonyms: | colonist, habitant, homesteader, immigrant, pilgrim, pioneer, planter |
| Main Entry: | outlander |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreigner |
| Synonyms: | alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, newcomer, outsider, stranger, émigré |
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