English Dictionary

immigrant

/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/

noun

A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there. / A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

The immigrant arrived in the country with hopes of a better life.

意味（1）

A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.

What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.

意味（2）

A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.