English noun: immigration | |||
1. | immigration (act) migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) | ||
Synonyms | in-migration | ||
Broader (hypernym) | migration | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | aliyah | ||
2. | immigration (group) the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval | ||
Samples | The increased immigration strengthened the colony. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | body | ||