migrant (redirected from Migrants)

mi·grant  (mgrnt)

n.

1. One that moves from one region to another by chance, instinct, or plan.

2. An itinerant worker who travels from one area to another in search of work.

adj.

Migratory.

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[Latin migrns, migrant-, present participle of migrre, to migrate; see migrate.]

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migrant [ˈmaɪgrənt]

n

1. a person or animal that moves from one region, place, or country to another

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) an itinerant agricultural worker who travels from one district to another

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Chiefly Austral

a.  an immigrant, esp a recent one

b.  (as modifier) a migrant hostel

adj

moving from one region, place, or country to another; migratory

[from Latin migrāre to change one's abode]

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A person who (1) belongs to a normally migratory culture who may cross national boundaries, or (2) has fled his or her native country for economic reasons rather than fear of political or ethnic persecution.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	migrant - traveler who moves from one region or country to another migrator traveler, traveller - a person who changes location 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
Adj.	1.	migrant - habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers" migratory unsettled - not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"

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migrant

noun

wanderer, immigrant, traveller, gypsy, tinker, rover, transient, nomad, emigrant, itinerant, drifter, vagrant economic migrants and political refugees

adjective

itinerant, wandering, drifting, roving, travelling, shifting, immigrant, gypsy, transient, nomadic, migratory, vagrant migrant workers

Translations

migrant [ˈmaɪgrənt]

A. ADJ → migratorio

B. N → emigrante mf; (= bird) → ave f migratoria or de paso
economic migrant → emigrante mf económico/a, emigrante mf por razones económicas

C. migrant worker N → trabajador(a) m/f emigrado/a

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migrant [ˈmaɪgrənt]

n

(= animal, bird, fish) → migrateur m

(= person) → migrant(e) m/f economic migrant

adj

[animal, bird, fish] → migrateur/trice

[worker] → migrant/e; [woman] → migrant(e); [children, group] → de migrants

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migrant

adj migrant bird → Zugvogel m; migrant butterfly → Wanderfalter m; migrant worker → Wanderarbeiter(in) m(f); (esp in EC) → Migrant(in) m(f), → Gastarbeiter(in) m(f) (neg!); migrant labour (Brit) or labor (US) → Wanderarbeiter pl; (esp in EC) → Gastarbeiter pl (neg!); migrant family → Migrantenfamilie f; migrant child → Migrantenkind nt

n

(= bird) → Zugvogel m

(= worker) → Wanderarbeiter(in) m(f); (esp in EC) → Migrant(in) m(f), → Gastarbeiter(in) m(f) (neg!)

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migrant [ˈmaɪgr/ənt]

1. adj (bird, animal) → migratore/trice; (worker) → emigrante, emigrato/a; (herdsman) → nomade

2. n (see adj) → migratore/trice, emigrante m/f, nomade m/f

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migrant [ˈmaɪgr/ənt]

1. adj (bird, animal) → migratore/trice; (worker) → emigrante, emigrato/a; (herdsman) → nomade

2. n (see adj) → migratore/trice, emigrante m/f, nomade m/f

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migrant → مهاجر, مُهاجِر migrant, stěhovavý migrant, omvandrende Migrant, Wander- αποδημητικός, μετανάστης migratorio, trabajador emigrante siirtolainen, vaeltava immigré, migrant migrant, migrantski emigrante, migrante 移住者, 移動性の 이동성의, 이주자 migrant, migrerend omstreifer, omvandrende wędrownik, wędrowny emigrante, migrante мигрант, мигрирующий flyttande, person som flyttar från plats till plats เคลื่อนย้ายจากที่หนึ่งไปอีกที่หนึ่ง, ผู้อพยพ göçmen di cư, người di cư 移居的, 移民