IMMIGRANT Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈi-mə-grənt

Definition of immigrant

as in migrant

one that leaves one place to settle in another America was founded by immigrants and they have been its lifeblood ever since

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immigrant

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adjective

as in expatriate

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Recent Examples of immigrant

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Amagda Pérez Amagda Pérez advocates for immigrants and farmworkers with kindness, respect and determination. — The Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026 These immigrants are at risk of losing Medicaid in October because of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill, according to a new analysis from KFF Health News. — STAT, 1 Oct. 2026

Adjective

Health benefits wane for immigrants The federal government required states to notify immigrants who will soon lose coverage, but immigrant rights advocates say some states did not begin sending letters until September. — Phil Galewitz, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026 This is the friction that Tariq felt was a nonnegotiable for the film, factions of an immigrant community torn between assimilating into American culture and proudly celebrating its differences as loudly as possible. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for immigrant

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The arrangements have drawn mounting scrutiny, most recently after migrants deported to Equatorial Guinea were held at gunpoint and beaten.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Trump sought to rally Republicans by attacking Democrats over inflation and immigration, repeating claims about the number and backgrounds of migrants who entered the country during the Biden administration.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of migrant

Adjective

This is a team assembled from immigration, diaspora, and expatriate ambition, coached by an outsider who can see what insiders missed.

— Michael Morris, Time, 1 July 2026
The Stoli Group is run by Russian expatriate billionaire Yuri Shefler, who also lives in Switzerland.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

Definition of expatriate

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Baksheng leaves behind a family and then creates a new one with other Teochew emigrants at an inn run by a feminist daughter, Zia Lamgi (Li Sitong) who dodges a revolving door of suitors.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of emigrant

Adjective

The European Commission is aware of this challenge and opened a foreign subsidies investigation into Goldwind’s activities in the EU wind sector in February.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
In graft versus host disease, donated stem cells recognize a recipient’s body as foreign and begin to attack their healthy tissues.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of foreign

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Israeli settlers opened fire on olive harvesters in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, killing a Palestinian officer who responded to the attack and wounding 16, Palestinian officials said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
At least one Palestinian was killed and 14 injured when Jewish settlers attacked olive farmers near the town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported today.

— Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of settler

Adjective

In this first contact technothriller, a mysterious spaceship carrying an alien hive mind called the Irunmole appears above Nigeria.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
The game, and thus the feature, centers on an elite unit of soldiers known as Helldivers who must battle alien creatures threatening to destroy the fictional planet of Super Earth.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026

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