释义
[ mahy -gruh nt ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈmaɪ grənt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective migrating, especially of people; migratory.
noun a person or animal that migrates.
a person who attempts to permanently relocate to a new country, but who may be subject to removal by the government of that country: undocumented migrants; unaccompanied child migrants. Compare immigrant.
Also called migrant worker. a person who moves from place to place to get work, especially a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.
Origin of migrant 1665–75; <Latin migrant- (stem of migrāns ), present participle of migrāre. See migrate, -ant
OTHER WORDS FROM migrant non·mi·grant, adjective, noun un·mi·grant, adjective
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Example sentences from the Web for migrant With the help of a Jamaican migrant worker, he returns to his homeland to find his father.
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Stories of migrant boats with no toilets or food at all are not.
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Sometimes for an instant he scanned the surface of the lake for signs of breaking fish or splash of migrant water bird.
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The migrant woodpecker whose cheery cackle assures us of the certainty of spring is rich in names that well befit him.
In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. Robinson
I'm left behind like a migrant bird grown old, and unable to fly.
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It is a migrant in the foothills and upper Piedmont on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge.
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British Dictionary definitions for migrant noun a person or animal that moves from one region, place, or country to another
an itinerant agricultural worker who travels from one district to another
mainly Australian an immigrant, esp a recent one (as modifier ) a migrant hostel adjective moving from one region, place, or country to another; migratory
Word Origin for migrant C17: from Latin migrāre to change one's abode
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