Crossword clues for immigrate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immigrate \Im"mi*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immigrating.] [L. immigrare, immigratum, to immigrate; pref. im- in + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.] To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To move into a country from another one to stay permanently.
WordNet
v. migrate to a new environment; "only few plants can immigrate to the island"
introduce or send as immigrants; "Britain immigrated many colonists to America"
come into a new country and change residency; "Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century" [ant: emigrate]
Usage examples of "immigrate".
Anglo-Saxon decorative art employed in the south of England an animal-style influenced by the Irish, and in the north a particularly fruitful motif borrowed from Syrian craftsmen who had immigrated to northern England -- namely regularly curving ornament, vine-scroll with animals -- either leaping, climbing, or flying -- decoratively disposed within it.
Bach died soon after our meeting, and Euler immigrated to Russia, so I was never again to meet the two men to discuss what I had found.
The German savants, mostly attributing them to the Saba tribes, who immigrated from Yemen about our first century, tried the Himyaritic syllabaries and failed.
Hapsburg with connections to a minor German royal family that had immigrated to England with nothing but their Protestantism to recommend them, and which had recently changed its name to one of less Hunnish sound as a gesture of patriotism.
Cole said evenly, thinking of how proud his mother had been when they first immigrated to this country from the Ukraine and had to live for years in section eight housing.
Esther Koenigsberg Bengigi, an American-born psychologist who immigrated to Israel in the late 1970s and married an Israeli paratrooper, once remarked to me that the Lebanon invasion actually changed her feelings toward Israel more than toward the Arabs.
Lac la Peche, a small wood sacred to the native manitou that immigrating Faerie had named Rathbabh and taken for their own.
I was enormously proud of my grandfather, and not only because he was in charge of trains and could click messages down a wire all the way to New York City, if he wanted to, but also because he was a half-blood Onondagan whose parents had immigrated to the United States from their unproductive farm on a tributary of the St.
The juvenile Purples were largely made up of children of recently immigrated Eastern European Jews, law abiding and hardworking families fleeing centuries of religious and cultural persecution in Europe.
Yuta claim, like the Shoshonee, descent from an ancient people that immigrated into their present seats from the Northwest.
Remembering what Amazons do to rapists and fearing that my former victim might have Immigrated to Tiryns with her just complaint, I drew my sword and prepared to fall on it rather than do battle with them or be taken alive, neither of which options I had taste for.
Birdie had immigrated from Haiti back in the seventies, and the older she got, the quirkier she got.
If the country were open on its borders, new forms would certainly immigrate, and this also would seriously disturb the relations of some of the former inhabitants.
But when the Ukrainians moved out and the immigrating Palestinians, Biafrans and Kurds moved in, the neighborhood went sour again.
His family immigrated from Brazil, and at age sixteen Cavflla joined the U.