What is "immigrant"

Usage examples of "immigrant".

Captain Miles Standish, the leader of a group of religious fanatics from England, who believed in the imminent arrival of Armageddon in Europe, invited a local tribe of Algonkian Indians, the Wampanoag, to join them for a dinner celebrating the good fortune that had seen their immigrant community established in New England.

Just as economic and political Americanism has been broad enough and vital enough to make a place in the American social economy for the hordes of European immigrants with their many diverse national characteristics, so the intellectual basis of Americanism must be broad enough to include and vigorous enough to assimilate the special ideals and means of discipline necessary to every kind of intellectual or moral excellence.

Americans are fully Americanized, since the United States in the new millennium is still a nation of immigrants and a multicultural, cosmopolitan country.

The second wave of immigrants - southern Europeans, Asians, Irish and Latinos - encountered an entrenched dominant culture of mostly Anglo- and northern-European Protestants, and suffered accordingly.

The town was already jammed with immigrants, and people were starting to build on hillside areas that Anse himself thought were questionable at best.

After that they moved in the immigrants, the Sephardic Jews from Spain, Belgian and French craftsmen, then the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.

Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York City, a veritable Ashkenazi tidal wave.

By 1880, Chinese immigrants, brought in by the railroads to do the backbreaking labor at pitiful wages, numbered 75,000 in California, almost one-tenth of the population.

How many votes would you get for teffing those people down there that the Jew is brainier than they are, or that these immigrant Czechs and Hungarians are more hard working?

That generation of German immigrants, settlers in the Chautauqua Valley in the l88Os.

She took down the tag number then relayed this to Rhyme, who said he would in turn put out another vehicle locator request, in addition to the one on the Honda, and tell the Port Authority police to pass the word to the toll takers at the bridges and tunnels, on the assumption that the immigrants were headed for Chinatown in Manhattan.

The sausage came by weekly fast-runner from Dodoma in the north, and was manufactured by a man of emus, a Westphalian immigrant who made sausages with the taste of the Black Forest in them.

One such immigrant, Charles Feltman, started as a pie vendor on Coney Island, New York, but switched to the lunch cart business in 1867.

The Fijian rites of initiation seem to have been imported by Melanesian immigrants from the west.

On the contrary, they were overwhelmed by such immigrants -- by relatively barbarian Hamites like the Bahima, Lwoo, and Masai -- and this over a period of several centuries, for the Bahima had reached the height of their power in Uganda by about 1600, while the Masai were not at the height of theirs, in Kenya and Tanganyika, until 18001850.