immigrant(n = noun.person) - a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there;
is a kind of migrant, migrator
Derived form verb immigrate3
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.
immigrant, n. & adj.
--n. a person who immigrates.
--adj.
1 immigrating.
2 of or concerning immigrants.
N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.
N ingress, entrance, entry, introgression, influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption, ingression, penetration, interpenetration, illapse, import, infiltration, immigration, admission, insinuation, insertion, inlet, way in, mouth, door, barway, path, conduit, immigrant, incoming.