Migrant
adj, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 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.""
- 2 traveler who moves from one region or country to another wordnet
- 3 Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- 4 A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another. informal
"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 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter."
- 5 Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
- 1 Migratory.
- 1 habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work wordnet
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More examples"Young people and migrant workers are the bulk of rural Internet users; in terms of online music, online games, online film and television, and the Internet's capacity for entertainment, rural Internet users are equivalent to urban ones."
Etymology
Borrowed from French migrant.