migrant
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migrant
- /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French migrant.
noun migrants
- A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird. Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."
- Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another. These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
adjective more migrant · most migrant
- Migratory.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: unsettled, migratory, allochthonous, floating, nomadic, movement, mobile, inward, migrate, emigrate, migration, settler, emigration, emigrant, expatriate, émigré
Translations
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noun migratory animal — see also migratory bird
| Español | migratorio, migratoria |
|---|
noun person moving from one region or country to another
| Español | migrante |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 이민 imin |
| 日本語 | 移住者 ijūsha, 渡り者 watarimono, 移民 imin |
| 中文 | 移民 yímín |
| हिन्दी | प्रवासी pravāsī |
| Português | migrante |
| Français | migrateur, migratrice, immigré, immigrée |
| Deutsch | Migrant, Migrantin |
| Italiano | migratore, migratrice |
| Ελληνικά | μετανάστης metanástis, μετανάστρια metanástria |
| Русский | мигра́нт migránt, мигра́нтка migrántka, переселе́нец pereselénec, переселе́нка pereselénka |
| العربية | مُهَاجِر muhājir, مُهَاجِرَة muhājira |
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title = {migrant},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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