Dictionary Definition
migrant adj : habitually moving from place to
place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the
social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers" [syn:
migratory] n :
traveler who moves from one region or country to another [syn:
migrator]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈmaɪgɹənt/, /"maIgr\@nt/
Noun
- A migratory bird or other animal.
Translations
A migratory bird or other animal
- Finnish: muuttolintu
- German: Migrant
- Swedish: flyttfågel
Adjective
Extensive Definition
Migrant may refer to:
- Immigration and emigration, the migration of humans
- Bird migration
- Migrant worker
- Migrant literature
migrant in Dutch: Migrant
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
DP,
avifauna, baby bird,
bird, bird of Jove, bird of
Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of
prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, blue-collar worker,
breadwinner, cage
bird, casual, casual
laborer, chick, common
laborer, cygnet, day
laborer, displaced person, diving bird, dove, drifter, drifting, eagle, eaglet, emigrant, emigre, employee, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, factory worker,
fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird,
floating, flunky, fowl, free lance, free-lancer,
fruit-eating bird, full-time worker, fulmar, game bird, gypsy, hand, immigrant, in-migrant,
industrial worker, insect-eating bird, itinerant, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrator, migratory, migratory bird,
migratory worker, mobile,
moiler, mover, navvy, nestling, nomad, nomadic, office temporary,
oscine bird, out-migrant, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, peregrinator, peripatetic, pigeon, proletarian, ratite, roustabout, rover, salaried worker, sea bird,
seed-eating bird, self-employed person, servant, shore bird, songbird, squab, stateless person, stiff, storm petrel, stormy
petrel, swan, temporary, toiler, transient, transmigratory, traveler, traveller, trekker, vagrant, wading bird, wage
earner, wage slave, wageworker, wanderer, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wayfarer, wetback, wildfowl, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl,
workingman, workingwoman, workman