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Word Meanings - IMMIGRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

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  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • PURPOSE
    1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • NATIVE
    1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
  • COUNTRY CLUB
    A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
  • PERMANENT
    Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression. Eternity stands permanent and fixed. Dryden. Permanent gases
  • NATIVE STEEL
    A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • COUNTRYSIDE
    A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
  • COUNTRY BANK
    A national bank not in a reserve city.
  • PURPOSER
    1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.
  • RESIDENCE
    The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights
  • NATIVELY
    By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
  • COUNTRYMAN
    1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
  • NATIVENESS
    The quality or state of being native.
  • COUNTRYWOMAN
    A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
  • PERMANENTLY
    In a permanent manner.
  • COUNTRY-BASE
    See BASE
  • ELIMINATIVE
    Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
  • NOMINATIVELY
    In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
  • EMANATIVE
    Issuing forth; effluent.
  • DOMINATIVE
    Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
  • REGNATIVE
    Ruling; governing.
  • COORDINATIVE
    Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
  • DENOMINATIVE
    Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
  • GLUTINATIVE
    Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
  • SEMIPERMANENT
    Half or partly permanent.
  • CONGLUTINATIVE
    Conglutinant.
  • CROSS-PURPOSE
    A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
  • DISPURPOSE
    To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.
  • URINATIVE
    Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. Bacon.
  • EMANATIVELY
    By an emanation.
  • ALTERNATIVENESS
    The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

 

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