All immigrant synonyms
im·mi·grant
I i noun immigrant
- alien — Alien means belonging to a different country, race, or group, usually one you do not like or are frightened of.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
- settler — a person or thing that settles.
- foreigner — a person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien.
- migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- pioneer — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- colonist — Colonists are the people who start a colony or the people who are among the first to live in a particular colony.
- outsider — a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
- incomer — a person who comes in.
- refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- coloniser — (British) alternative spelling of colonizer.
- colonizer — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
adjective immigrant
- seasonal — pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season; periodical: seasonal work.
- early american — (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
- outland — Usually, outlands. the outlying districts or remote regions of a country; provinces: a name unknown in the outlands.
- transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
- nonresident — not resident in a particular place.
- migrational — the process or act of migrating.
- on the move — to pass from one place or position to another.
- foreign — of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native: foreign cars.
- prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- colonial — Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism.
- transoceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
- nonnative — of or relating to a language that is not the first language acquired by a person: It is harder to communicate in your nonnative language.
- tramper — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.