Immigrant

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=mi=grant

CIDE DICTIONARY

Immigrant, 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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Immigrant, n. & adj.
--n. a person who immigrates.
--adj.
1 immigrating.
2 of or concerning immigrants.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Immigrant

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

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Immigrant

Extraneousness

N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.

Ingress

N ingress, entrance, entry, introgression, influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption, ingression, penetration, interpenetration, illapse, import, infiltration, immigration, admission, insinuation, insertion, inlet, way in, mouth, door, barway, path, conduit, immigrant, incoming.