All 19 Uses
immigrate
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The Woman Warrior
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- The immigrants I know have loud voices, unmodulated to American tones even after years away from the village where they called their friendships out across the fields.†
Chpt 1 *immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- I have thought that my family, having settled among immigrants who had also been their neighbors in the ancestral land, needed to clean their name, and a wrong word would incite the kinspeople even here.†
Chpt 1
- The new immigrants aren't Communists, Mother.†
Chpt 3
- Immigration Ghosts were stamping papers.†
Chpt 4immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- These new immigrants had it easy.†
Chpt 4immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Here everything was new plastic, a ghost trick to lure immigrants into feeling safe and spilling their secrets.†
Chpt 4
- Luggage conveyors fooled immigrants into thinking the Gold Mountain was going to be easy.†
Chpt 4
- A lot of immigrants start that way nowadays.†
Chpt 4
- Immigrants also work in the canneries, where it's so noisy it doesn't matter if they speak Chinese or what.†
Chpt 4
- Immigrants nowadays were bandits, beating up store owners and stealing from them rather than working.†
Chpt 4
- There were secrets never to be said in front of the ghosts, immigration secrets whose telling could get us sent back to China.†
Chpt 5immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
- Occasionally the rumor went about that the United States immigration authorities had set up headquarters in the San Francisco or Sacramento Chinatown to urge wetbacks and stowaways, anybody here on fake papers, to come to the city and get their files straightened out.†
Chpt 5
- The immigrants discussed whether or not to turn themselves in.†
Chpt 5immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Pay the new immigrants twenty-five cents an hour and say we have no unemployment.†
Chpt 5
- She was a woman of such power that all we immigrants and descendants of immigrants were obliged to her family forever for bringing us here and for finding us jobs, and she had named my voice.†
Chpt 5
- She was a woman of such power that all we immigrants and descendants of immigrants were obliged to her family forever for bringing us here and for finding us jobs, and she had named my voice.†
Chpt 5
- They were all funny-looking FOB's, Fresh-off-the-Boat's, as the Chinese-American kids at school called the young immigrants.†
Chpt 5
- I've been looking up "Ho Chi Kuei," which is what the immigrants call us-Ho Chi Ghosts.†
Chpt 5
- The immigrants could be saying that we were born on Gold Mountain and have advantages.†
Chpt 5
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) Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.