1 a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work:
They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. * migrant workers * The country has a large seasonal migrant population, who work on the coffee and cotton plantations for part of the year.
compareEMIGRANT, IMMIGRANT
2 a bird or an animal that moves from one place to another according to the season
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for migrant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is migrant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, migrant is tagged as noun.
Does migrant appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — migrant appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
