All 3 Uses of
immigrate
in
Interview with the Vampire
- It was filled not only with the French and Spanish of all classes who had formed in part its peculiar aristocracy, but later with immigrants of all kinds, the Irish and the German in particular.†
Part 1immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Poverty began to fascinate her; she begged Lestat or me to take a carriage out through the Faubourg St.-Marie to the riverfront places where the immigrants lived.†
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- Perhaps he crouched, waiting for a passing carriage; perhaps he crept, gathering still what blood he could until he came to the shacks of those immigrants or those scattered country houses.†
Part 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.