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noun

Migrant n.

A migratory bird, person, or other animal.

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.

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Etymology of 'Migrant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Migrant" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the river silence prevailed, they saw the stars overhead, the reflections on sand and water around them, and the quivering change as air currents moved in the dark—the things that walk in the night. They heard, at intervals, many voices. Some they knew as the fluent music of migrant geese flying over on long laps of their fall flight, but some they did not know, except that they ...

— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears

... portion of the sterile pampas and Patagonia, has been made available to the emigrant. There is no longer anything to deter the starvelings of the Old World from possessing themselves of this new land of promise, flowing, like Australia, with milk and tallow, if not with honey; any emasculated migrant from a Genoese or Neapolitan slum is now competent to "fight the wilderness" out there, with his eight-shilling fowling-piece and the implements of his trade. The barbarians no longer exist to frighten his soul with dreadful war cries; they have moved away to another more remote and shadowy ...

— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson

... than this, though not quite so frequent, was the returned migrant who was a living example of the prosperity of the North. It was a frequent complaint that these men were as effective as labor agents in urging negro laborers to go north. There are reported numerous instances ...

— Negro Migration during the War • Emmett J. Scott

Words linked to "Migrant" : traveller, migratory, migrant shrike, traveler, departer, colonist, rusher, emigre, emigree, emigrant, settler, leaver, immigrant