'Migrant' definitions:
Definition of 'migrant'
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Definition of 'Migrant'
From: GCIDE
- Migrant \Mi"grant\, a. [L. migrans, p. pr. of migrare. See Migrate.] Migratory. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Migrant'
From: GCIDE
- Migrant \Mi"grant\, n.
- 1. A migratory bird, person, or other animal.
- 2. A person who changes residence frequently in search of employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting crops seasonally; also called migrant laborer or migrant worker. Sometimes the migrant worker is not a resident of the country in which the work is performed. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'migrant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- DP,
- 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