MIGRANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does migrant mean?
• MIGRANT (noun)
The noun MIGRANT has 1 sense:
1. traveler who moves from one region or country to another
Familiarity information: MIGRANT used as a noun is very rare.
• MIGRANT (adjective)
The adjective MIGRANT has 1 sense:
1. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
Familiarity information: MIGRANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MIGRANT (noun)
Meaning:
Traveler who moves from one region or country to another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
migrant; migrator
Hypernyms ("migrant" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "migrant"):
departer; goer; leaver (someone who leaves)
emigrant; emigre; emigree; outgoer (someone who leaves one country to settle in another)
evacuee (a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place)
immigrant (a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there)
rusher (someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory)
colonist; settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
• MIGRANT (adjective)
Meaning:
Habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
Synonyms:
migrant; migratory
Context examples:
appalled by the social conditions of migrant life / migratory workers
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
