| Main Entry: | immigrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enter a foreign area intending to live there |
Synonyms: |
arrive, colonize, come in, go in, migrate, settle |
| Notes: | to emigrate or immigrate is to enter a new country to take up residency; the only real difference between these words is you emigrate from your country to another country and you immigrate into (or to) another country |
Antonyms: |
emigrate, stay |
| Main Entry: | come in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enter place |
Synonyms: |
alight, appear, arrive, cross threshold, disembark, finish, immigrate, intrude, land, pass in, reach, set foot in, show up |
Antonyms: |
depart, exit, go, leave |
| Main Entry: | enter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come, put into a place |
Synonyms: |
access, arrive, barge in, blow in, break in, breeze in, burst in, bust in, butt in, come in, crack, crawl, creep, crowd in, drive in, drop in, fall into, gain entrée, get in, go in, horn in, immigrate, infiltrate, ingress, insert, insinuate, introduce, intrude, invade, jump in, make an entrance, make way, move in, pass into, penetrate, pierce, pile in, pop in, probe, rush in, set foot in, slip, sneak, work in, worm in, wriggle |
Antonyms: |
depart, exit, go, leave, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | migrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move, travel to another place |
Synonyms: |
drift, emigrate, immigrate, journey, leave, nomadize, range, roam, rove, shift, transmigrate, trek, voyage, wander |
Antonyms: |
stay |
| Main Entry: | transplant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relocate |
Synonyms: |
displace, emigrate, graft, immigrate, move, readapt, recondition, remove, reorient, reset, resettle, revamp, shift, transfer, transpose, uproot |
Antonyms: |
preserve, save |
| Main Entry: | colonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | settle |
Synonyms: |
conquer, found, immigrate, migrate, people, pioneer, transplant |
| Main Entry: | transmigrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emigrate |
Synonyms: |
depart, immigrate, migrate, move abroad, quit, remove |