migrant

mi·grant

M0289800 (mī′grənt)n.1. An organism, especially an animal, that moves from one region to another (as for breeding) or that has established itself in an area where it previously did not exist.2. An itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of work.3. A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another; an immigrant.adj. Migratory.

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[Latin migrāns, migrant-, present participle of migrāre, to migrate; see migrate.]

migrant

(ˈmaɪɡrənt) n1. a person or animal that moves from one region, place, or country to another2. (Agriculture) an itinerant agricultural worker who travels from one district to another3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) chiefly a. an immigrant, esp a recent oneb. (as modifier): a migrant hostel. adjmoving from one region, place, or country to another; migratory[C17: from Latin migrāre to change one's abode]

mi•grant

(ˈmaɪ grənt)

adj. 1. migrating; migratory. n. 2. a person or animal that migrates. 3. Also called mi′grant work`er. a person who moves from place to place to get work, esp. in seasonal harvesting. [1665–75; < Latin]

migrant

A person who (1) belongs to a normally migratory culture who may cross national boundaries, or (2) has fled his or her native country for economic reasons rather than fear of political or ethnic persecution.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	migrant - traveler who moves from one region or country to anothermigratortraveler, traveller - a person who changes locationdeparter, goer, leaver - someone who leavesemigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer - someone who leaves one country to settle in anotherevacuee - a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous placeimmigrant - a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle thererusher - someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territorycolonist, settler - a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
Adj.	1.	migrant - habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"migratoryunsettled - not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"

migrant

noun1. wanderer, immigrant, traveller, gypsy, tinker, rover, transient, nomad, emigrant, itinerant, drifter, vagrant economic migrants and political refugeesadjective1. itinerant, wandering, drifting, roving, travelling, shifting, immigrant, gypsy, transient, nomadic, migratory, vagrant migrant workers

migrant

nounOne who emigrates:emigrant, immigrant, transmigrant.adjective1. Moving from one habitat to another on a seasonal basis:migrational, migratory, transmigratory.2. Moving from one area to another in search of work:itinerant, migratory.

Translations

移居的移居者移民

migrate

(maiˈgreit) , ((American) ˈmaigreit) verb1. (of certain birds and animals) to travel from one region to another at certain times of the year. Many birds migrate in the early winter. 遷徙(某些動物隨季節變化所做的) （某些动物随季节变化所做的）迁移 2. (of people) to change one's home to another country or (regularly) from place to place. The Gothic peoples who overwhelmed the Roman Empire migrated from the East. 移居 移居miˈgration noun 遷徙，移居 迁移，迁居 ˈmigrant ((British and American) ˈmai-) noun a person, bird or animal that migrates or has migrated. The swallow is a summer migrant to Britain; (also adjective) migrant workers. 移民，候鳥，遷徙動物 移居者ˈmigratory ((British and American) ˈmaigrə-) adjective 遷徙的，移居的 迁移的

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