Associations to the word «Immigration»

Wiktionary

IMMIGRATION, noun. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

Dictionary definition

IMMIGRATION, noun. Migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there).
IMMIGRATION, noun. The body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats