| Main Entry: | immigrant |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | alien |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foreign being |
Synonyms: |
blow in, floater, foreigner, greenhorn, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, invader, migrant, newcomer, noncitizen, outsider, refugee, settler, squatter, stranger, visitor, weed* |
Antonyms: |
citizen, countryman, national, native, settler |
| 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 |
| 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 |