migrant
/ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
migrant noun: a migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
Noun
migrant (plural 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."1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182
- 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...2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN
- “But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”2021 April 22, Aryn Baker, “Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
Adjective
migrant (comparative more migrant, superlative most migrant)
migrant meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
migrant in Hindi
- person moving from one region or country to another
- प्रवासी pravāsī
migrant in Marathi
- स्थलांतरित
migrant in Urdu
- مہاجر, نقل مکانی کرنے والا
migrant in Bengali
- পরিযায়ী, অভিবাসী
More languagesFewer languages
- migrant in Malayalam
- കുടിയേറിപ്പാർക്കുന്നവൻ, ദേശാന്തരഗമനം ചെയ്യുന്നവൻ, അന്യദേശത്തേക്ക് പോകുന്നവൻ
- migrant in Kannada
- ಪ್ರವಾಸಿ, ವಲಸಿಗ, ವಲಸೆಗಾರ, ಗುಳೆಗಾರ
- migrant in Gujarati
- સ્થળાંતરિત
- migrant in Tagalog
- ibong-lagalag
- migrant in Arabic
- مُهَاجِر muhājir, مُهَاجِرَة muhājira
- migrant in Persian
- مهاجر mohâjer
Examples of migrant in a sentence
- Many Irish are actually dark-haired as a result of the many invaders and migrants over the centuries.
- The Sunak government announced plans to stem the flow of migrants coming into Great Britain.
- The UN inspector stated that the Australian government's migrant detention facilities were in effect concentration camps.
Forms of migrant
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | migrants |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more migrant |
| superlative | most migrant |
Origin of migrant
Borrowed from French migrant.
Words formed from migrant
Phrases with migrant
Questions about migrant
- What does migrant mean?
- Migrant means a migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
- What is migrant in Hindi?
- Migrant in Hindi is प्रवासी (pravāsī). See Migrant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is migrant?
- Migrant can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce migrant?
- Migrant is pronounced /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/.
- What is the plural of migrant?
- The plural of migrant is migrants.
Words near migrant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: migrant (page history and authors); migrant (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); migrant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); migrant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); migrant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); migrant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); migrant (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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