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 →

2) As an adjective, immigrant describes people or families who have moved to a new country. tree →

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 →
• Many immigrants arrived in New York by ship. tree →
• The immigrant family opened a bakery in our town. tree →
• Immigrants bring their food, music and languages. tree →
• She is a first-generation immigrant; her children were born here. tree →
• Out of 30 pupils, 9 were born in another country. tree →
• Australia has welcomed immigrants from all over the world. tree →

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).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «immigrant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.