MIGRATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does migration mean?
• MIGRATION (noun)
The noun MIGRATION has 4 senses:
1. the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
2. a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
3. (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
4. the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
Familiarity information: MIGRATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• MIGRATION (noun)
Meaning:
The movement of persons from one country or locality to another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "migration"):
emigration; expatriation; out-migration (migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another))
immigration; in-migration (migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there))
gold rush (a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field)
Meaning:
A group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meaning:
(chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
event (something that happens at a given place and time)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Meaning:
The periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("migration" is a kind of...):
periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)
