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# immigrant

«immigrant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who has come to live in a new country from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an immigrant, immigrants); adjective (immigrant families)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An immigrant is a person who has come to live in a new country from another country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#m1)

2) As an adjective, immigrant describes people or families who have moved to a new country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons pupils learn that immigrants have moved for work, safety, family or a better life, and that countries like the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland have many immigrants. In everyday life many classmates or their families are immigrants. Phrases: immigrant family, first-generation immigrant, immigrants from.

### examples

- My grandparents were immigrants from Italy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#x1)
- Many immigrants arrived in New York by ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#x2)
- The immigrant family opened a bakery in our town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#x3)
- Immigrants bring their food, music and languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#x4)
- She is a first-generation immigrant; her children were born here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#x5)
- Out of 30 pupils, 9 were born in another country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#x6)
- Australia has welcomed immigrants from all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/#x7)

### note

Countable noun; «an immigrant». An immigrant comes INTO a country; an emigrant goes OUT of a country — the same person can be both. A «migrant» moves from one place to another. «Immigration» is the noun for the movement.

### In the corpora

- ["Undocumented immigrant" means an immigrant living without legal permission (US, polite).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «immigrant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immigrant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.