All 5 Uses
immigrate
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The Color of Water
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- On her end, Mommy had no model for raising us other than the experience of her own Orthodox Jewish family, which despite the seeming flaws-an unbending nature, a stridency, a focus on money, a deep distrust of all outsiders, not to mention her father's tyranny-represented the best and worst of the immigrant mentality: hard work, no nonsense, quest for excellence, distrust of authority figures, and a deep belief in God and education.†
Chpt 4immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- They were all old women, immigrants who had come over with their children, and America fascinated them.†
Chpt 13 *immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- See, she was the first American in my family, while Sam and I were immigrants, and we kind of had that immigrant thing on us.†
Chpt 19
- See, she was the first American in my family, while Sam and I were immigrants, and we kind of had that immigrant thing on us.†
Chpt 19immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- It suddenly occurred to me that my grandmother had walked around here and gazed upon this water many times, and the loneliness and agony that Hudis Shilsky felt as a Jew in this lonely southern town-far from her mother and sisters in New York, unable to speak English, a disabled Polish immigrant whose husband had no love for her and whose dreams of seeing her children grow up in America vanished as her life drained out of her at the age of forty-six-suddenly rose up in my blood and washed over me in waves.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(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.