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migrator|maɪˈgreɪtə(r)|
[a. L. migrātor, f. migrāre: see migrate.]
One who migrates; also spec. a migratory bird.
1818Shelley Let. to Peacock 25 July, It would be a little dangerous to the newly unfrozen senses and imaginations of us migrators from the neighbourhood of the pole. 1836Swainson Nat. Hist. Birds I. i. iii. 97 The swallows..are..both the swiftest and the most distant migrators. 1852Bristed Five Yrs. Eng. Univ. 100 A migration is generally tantamount to a confession of inferiority, and acknowledgement that the migrator is not likely to become a Fellow of his own College. 1889R. B. Anderson tr. Rydberg's Teut. Mythol. 31 Everywhere this great multitude of migrators was well received by the inhabitants. |