immigrate
verb /ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/
/ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/
[intransitive] (especially North American English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they immigrate | /ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/ /ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/ |
| he / she / it immigrates | /ˈɪmɪɡreɪts/ /ˈɪmɪɡreɪts/ |
| past simple immigrated | /ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/ /ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle immigrated | /ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/ /ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form immigrating | /ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈɪmɪɡreɪtɪŋ/ |
- immigrate (to…) (from…) to come and live permanently in a country after leaving your own country
- About 6.6 million people immigrated to the United States in the 1970s.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin immigrat- ‘immigrated’, from the verb immigrare, from in- ‘into’ + migrare ‘migrate’.