Immigrant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immigrant \Im"mi*grant\, n. [L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare
     to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See {Immigrate}.]
     One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the
     purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.
  
     Syn: See {Emigrant}.


          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immigrant
       n : a person who comes to a country where they were not born in
           order to settle there

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "immigrant":
     DP, alien, arrival, arriviste, citizen, citizen by adoption,
     colonial, colonist, colonizer, comer, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite,
     displaced person, emigrant, emigre, entrant, evacue, evacuee,
     exile, expatriate, foreigner, gate-crasher, greenhorn, homesteader,
     hyphenate, hyphenated American, in-migrant, incomer, intruder,
     metic, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, national,
     naturalized citizen, nester, new arrival, new boy, newcomer,
     nonnative citizen, novus homo, out-migrant, outlander, outsider,
     parvenu, pioneer, planter, precursor, recruit, rookie, settler,
     sooner, squatter, stateless person, stowaway, subject, tenderfoot,
     trekker, upstart, visitant, visitor, wetback
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  IMMIGRANT, n.  An unenlightened person who thinks one country better
  than another.