Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Immigrant \Im"mi*grant\, n. [L. immigrans, p. pr. of immigrare
to go into: cf. F. immigrant. See Immigrate.]
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the
purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.
Syn: See Emigrant.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
immigrant
n 1: a person who comes to a country where they were not born in
order to settle there
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "immigrant":
DP, alien, arrival, arriviste, citizen, citizen by adoption,
colonial, colonist, colonizer, comer, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite,
displaced person, emigrant, emigre, entrant, evacue, evacuee,
exile, expatriate, foreigner, gate-crasher, greenhorn, homesteader,
hyphenate, hyphenated American, in-migrant, incomer, intruder,
metic, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, national,
naturalized citizen, nester, new arrival, new boy, newcomer,
nonnative citizen, novus homo, out-migrant, outlander, outsider,
parvenu, pioneer, planter, precursor, recruit, rookie, settler,
sooner, squatter, stateless person, stowaway, subject, tenderfoot,
trekker, upstart, visitant, visitor, wetback
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better
than another.