immigrate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

The American marveled at a recently immigrated Slav's astrachan cap. — The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, Sinclair Lewis
German philosophers, would-be philosophers, and beaux esprits, eagerly seized on this literature, only forgetting, that when these writings immigrated from France into Germany, French social conditions had not immigrated along with them. — The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
I was already the best travelled boy in Georgetown, except the sons of one man, John Walker, who had emigrated to Texas with his family, and immigrated back as soon as he could get the means to do so. — Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

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