Immigrant and Native

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Immigrant

Immigrant noun - One that leaves one place to settle in another.
Usage example: America was founded by immigrants and they have been its lifeblood ever since
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Native is an antonym for immigrant in person from a foreign land topic.
Nearby Words: immigration, immigrate, immigrating, immigrated

Native

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Usage example: though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner
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Immigrant is an antonym for native.
Nearby Words: nativity, natively
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How words are described

alien alien immigrant alien native
single single immigrant single native
poor poor immigrant poor native
young young immigrant young native
Other adjectives: beautiful, former, titular, last, Indian, stereotypical, english, European.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Dirty Pretty Things Okwe (Ejiofor) is an illegal immigrant from Nigeria who was a doctor in his native country but had to flee under mysterious circumstances to London.
    Source: Film / Dirty Pretty Things
  • Useful Notes / Glasgow Celtic represents the Irish-Catholic "immigrant" population, whilst Rangers represents the "native" Scottish (and occasionally Ulster) Protestant population.
    Source: Useful Notes / Glasgow
  • Video Game / Street Fighter I Street Fighter II turned him into an American immigrant before retconning him into a native-born American of (mostly) Japanese descent.
    Source: Video Game / Street Fighter I
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Native and Immigrant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/immigrant/native
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