Word Meanings - IMMIGRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.

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• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• COMES
  The answer to the theme in a fugue.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• PERMANENT
  Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression. Eternity stands permanent and fixed. Dryden. Permanent gases
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• PURPOSER
  1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
• RESIDENCE
  The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• COUNTRYWOMAN
  A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
• PERMANENTLY
  In a permanent manner.
• COUNTRY-BASE
  See BASE
• COMESSATION
  A reveling; a rioting. Bp. Hall.
• PURPOSELY
  With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly. In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they
• COUNTRY COUSIN
  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
• COUNTRY
  The rock through which a vein runs. Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put, or throw, one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury. (more info) contrata, fr. L. contra over against,
• SEMIPERMANENT
  Half or partly permanent.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.