migrant

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.

   • Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."
2. 2

   Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.

3. 3

   A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.

   • “But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”
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   1. 4

      Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.

   2. 5

      Migratory.

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