migrant

migrant

See also: Migrant

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from French migrant.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Noun

    migrant (plural migrants)

    1. A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
      Hypernyms: bird < animal < creature
      Hyponym: snowbird
      Coordinate term: resident
      • 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:
        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. Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
    3. (informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
      • 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN[1]:
        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.
      • 2021 April 22, Aryn Baker, “Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?”, in Time[2]:
        “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.”
    4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.

    Hyponyms

    Translations

    Adjective

    migrant (comparative more migrant, superlative most migrant)

    1. Migratory.

    Derived terms

    Anagrams

    Catalan

    Noun

    migrant m or f by sense (plural migrants)

    1. migrant

    Verb

    migrant

    1. gerund of migrar

    Dutch

    Etymology

    Ultimately from Latin migrans.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /miˈɣrɑnt/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: mi‧grant
    • Rhymes: -ɑnt

    Noun

    migrant m (plural migranten, diminutive migrantje n, feminine migrante)

    1. migrant

    Hyponyms

    French

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    migrant m (plural migrants)

    1. Traveler or worker who moves from one region or country to another

    Derived terms

    Adjective

    migrant (feminine migrante, masculine plural migrants, feminine plural migrantes)

    1. migrant, migratory

    Participle

    migrant

    1. present participle of migrer

    Further reading

    Latin

    Verb

    migrant

    1. third-person plural present active indicative of migrō

    Polish

    Etymology

    Borrowed from French migrant, from Latin migrāns.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɡrant/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -iɡrant
    • Syllabification: mi‧grant

    Noun

    migrant m pers (female equivalent migrantka)

    1. migrant (person)

    Declension

    Noun

    migrant m animal

    1. migrant (animal)

    Declension

    Further reading

    • migrant”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • migrant”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)

    Swedish

    Noun

    migrant c

    1. a migrant (someone who moves from one country or region to another)

    Declension

    Declension of migrant
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite migrant migrants
    definite migranten migrantens
    plural indefinite migranter migranters
    definite migranterna migranternas

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