| 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 |