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IMMIGRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immigrate mean? 

IMMIGRATE (verb)
  The verb IMMIGRATE has 3 senses:

1. migrate to a new environmentplay

2. introduce or send as immigrantsplay

3. come into a new country and change residencyplay

  Familiarity information: IMMIGRATE used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMMIGRATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they immigrate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it immigrates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: immigrated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: immigrated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: immigrating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Migrate to a new environment

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

only few plants can immigrate to the island

Hypernyms (to "immigrate" is one way to...):

migrate; transmigrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

immigration (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))


Sense 2

Meaning:

Introduce or send as immigrants

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Britain immigrated many colonists to America

Hypernyms (to "immigrate" is one way to...):

bring in; introduce (bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

immigration (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Come into a new country and change residency

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century

Hypernyms (to "immigrate" is one way to...):

migrate; transmigrate (move from one country or region to another and settle there)

"Immigrate" entails doing...:

arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

emigrate (leave one's country of residence for a new one)

Derivation:

immigrant (a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there)

immigration (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))

immigration (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval)


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