1.
[syn: immigration, in-migration]
2. the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval;
- Example: "the increased immigration strengthened the colony"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Immigration \Im"mi*gra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. immigration.]
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country
for the purpose of permanent residence.
[1913 Webster]
The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. --T.
Warton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
immigration
n 1: migration into a place (especially migration to a country
of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
[syn: immigration, in-migration]
2: the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval;
"the increased immigration strengthened the colony"
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
IMMIGRATION. The removing into one place from another. It differs from
emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide
Emigration.