"immigrate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-immigrate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: immigrates [present, singular, third-person], immigrating [participle, present], immigrated [participle, past], immigrated [past]
enPR: ĭʹmĭ.grāt' Etymology: From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|immigratus}} Latin immigratus, {{m|la|immigro||remove, move into}} immigro (“remove, move into”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} immigrate (third-person singular simple present immigrates, present participle immigrating, simple past and past participle immigrated)
  1. (intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently. Tags: intransitive Derived forms: immigrant, immigration Related terms: migrate Translations (to move into a foreign country or area): هَاجَرَ (hājara) (Arabic), ներգաղթել (nergaġtʻel) (Armenian), емигрирам (emigriram) (Bulgarian), преселвам се (preselvam se) (Bulgarian), immigrar (Catalan), 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 移民 (yímín) (Chinese Mandarin), 移居 (yíjū) (Chinese Mandarin), immigrere (Danish), indvandre (Danish), immigreren (Dutch), enmigri (Esperanto), muuttaa maahan (Finnish), immigrer (French), einwandern (German), immigrieren (German), להגר (lehagér) (Hebrew), enmigrar (Ido), immigrare (Italian), 移住する (ijū suru) (alt: いじゅうする) (Japanese), 移民する (imin suru) (alt: いみんする) (Japanese), ធ្វើអន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (thvəə ʼɑntaoprɑveeh) (Khmer), immigrere (Norwegian), imigrować (Polish), imigrar (Portuguese), иммигри́ровать (immigrírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), переселя́ться (pereseljátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), пересели́ться (pereselítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), dèan in-imrich (Scottish Gaelic), imigrirati (Serbo-Croatian), имигрирати (Serbo-Croatian), inmigrar (Spanish), immigrera (Swedish), invandra (Swedish), göçmek (Turkish), göç etmek (Turkish), nhập cư (Vietnamese), אײַנוואַנדערן (aynvandern) (Yiddish)

Inflected forms

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        "(intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently."
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          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "ji⁴ man⁴",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yímín",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "移民"
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        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "indvandre"
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          "code": "nl",
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          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "immigreren"
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          "code": "eo",
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          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "enmigri"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "muuttaa maahan"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "immigrer"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "einwandern"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "immigrieren"
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          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "lehagér",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "להגר"
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          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "immigrere"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "imigrować"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "imigrar"
        },
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "immigrírovatʹ",
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          "roman": "pereseljátʹsja",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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        },
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          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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        },
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "dèan in-imrich"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "imigrirati"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "имигрирати"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "inmigrar"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "immigrera"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "invandra"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "göçmek"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "göç etmek"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "nhập cư"
        },
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          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "aynvandern",
          "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
          "word": "אײַנוואַנדערן"
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        "To move into a foreign country to stay permanently."
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        "(intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently."
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      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigrar"
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      "code": "yue",
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      "roman": "ji⁴ man⁴",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "移民"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yímín",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "移民"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigrere"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "indvandre"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigreren"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "enmigri"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "muuttaa maahan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "einwandern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigrieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "lehagér",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "להגר"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "enmigrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigrare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いじゅうする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ijū suru",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "移住する"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いみんする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "imin suru",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "移民する"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "thvəə ʼɑntaoprɑveeh",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "ធ្វើអន្តោប្រវេសន៍"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigrere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "imigrować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "imigrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "immigrírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "иммигри́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pereseljátʹsja",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "переселя́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pereselítʹsja",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "пересели́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "dèan in-imrich"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "imigrirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "имигрирати"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "inmigrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "immigrera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "invandra"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "göçmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "göç etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "nhập cư"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "aynvandern",
      "sense": "to move into a foreign country or area",
      "word": "אײַנוואַנדערן"
    }
  ],
  "word": "immigrate"
}

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