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Immigrant vs Fugitive - What's the difference?

immigrant | fugitive |

As nouns the difference between immigrant and fugitive

is that immigrant is immigrant while fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.

As an adjective fugitive is

fleeing or running away.

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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    fugitive

    English

    (wikipedia fugitive)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain