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migrant
/ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
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What does migrant mean?
noun
- A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
- Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- (informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
More meanings (2)
noun
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
adjective
- Migratory.
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/ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
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They stay longer than any other migrant, being absent only three months during the depth of winter.
The bluebird is not always a migrant, except in the more northern portions of the country.
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Political and economic instability in South Africa raise uncertainties for Lesotho's economy, especially with respect to migrant worker remittances--over one-third of GDP.
Keen-eyed and alert through danger and loneliness, he noted every stage of development, from the first piping frog and unsheathing bud, to full leafage and the return of the last migrant.
Mutât enira mundi naturam totius ætas, Ex alioque alius status excipere omnia debet; Nec manet ulla sui similis res; omnia migrant, Omnia commutât natura, et vertere cogit.