All 5 Uses of
immigrate
in
The History of Love
- My parents had immigrated to Chile from Krakow when I was very young,
*immigrated = moved to (a new country)
- Mr. Moritz was born in 1940 in Brooklyn to immigrant parents.†
immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- At first we were supposed to write to Russian Jews who had just immigrated to Israel, but when that fell through we were assigned regular Russian Jews.†
immigrated = came to live in a new country
- I was an immigrant, it took a long time to get over the fear that they'd send me back.†
immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- But all that came up was a list of immigrants who'd arrived in New York City in 1891 (Mendel Mereminski), and a list of Holocaust victims recorded at Yad Vashem (Adam Mereminski, Fanny Mereminski, Nacham, Zellig, Hershel, Bluma, Ida, but, to my relief, because I didn't want to lose her before I'd even begun to look, no Alma).†
immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
Definition:
come to live in a new country