| VERB | change | immigrate | migrate to a new environment |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | immigrate | introduce or send as immigrants | |
| change | immigrate | come into a new country and change residency |
| Sounds | ih'mahgrey.t | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | migrate to a new environment. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "only few plants can immigrate to the island" | |
| Broader | migrate, transmigrate | Move from one country or region to another and settle there |
| Catalan | immigrar | |
| Nouns | immigration | migration into a place (especially migration to a country / country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) |
| Meaning | introduce or send as immigrants. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP | |
| Example | "Britain immigrated many colonists to America" | |
| Broader | bring in, introduce | bring in a new person or object into a familiar / familiar environment |
| Spanish | inmigrar | |
| Catalan | immigrar | |
| Nouns | immigration | the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval |
| Meaning | Come into a new country and change residency. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century" | |
| Entails | arrive, get, come | reach a destination |
| Entailed by | naturalize, naturalise | make into a citizen |
| Broader | migrate, transmigrate | Move from one country or region to another and settle there |
| Opposite | emigrate | Leave one's country of residence for a new one |
| Spanish | inmigrar | |
| Catalan | immigrar | |
| Nouns | 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 / 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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