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Incomer vs Immigrant - What's the difference?

incomer | immigrant |

As nouns the difference between incomer and immigrant

is that incomer is an outsider who moves to a community or a place, as used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants while immigrant is a person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there.

As an adjective immigrant is

of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

incomer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An outsider who moves to a community or a place, as used by those who consider themselves to be its original inhabitants.
  • One who comes in.

    • immigrant

    English

    (Immigration)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there.
  • A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

    • Antonyms

    * emigrant

    Derived terms

    * landed immigrant

    See also

    * expatriate

    Anagrams

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