- pronunciation:
- I
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- features:
- Language Note, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
immigrates, immigrating, immigrated |
| definition: |
When people immigrate, they come to live permanently in a country where they were not born. People often immigrate to escape poverty, hunger, or violence, but there are other reasons too.
Many Irish people immigrated to America in the middle of the nineteenth century. Many people were starving in Ireland during that time because of a terrible famine that began around 1845. Millions of Irish people left Ireland because of it.- similar words:
- emigrate, migrate
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| derivation: |
immigrator (n.) |
Immigrate and
emigrate are verbs that are related and that sound almost alike.
Immigrate means to come to live in a country where one was not born.
Emigrate means to leave one country to settle in another.
Andrea immigrated to the United States from Bosnia. Her family emigrated because of the war.