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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... crimson; breast and underneath white; back black and white; wings and tail blue black, with broad white band on wings conspicuous in flight. Range — United States, east of Rocky Mountains and north to Manitoba. Migrations — Abundant but irregular migrant. Most commonly seen in Autumn, ...

— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan

... the places where it perched and nested and led forth its brood know it no more. Apparently it flits from world to world as the great cosmic spring comes to each, and departs as the cosmic winter returns to each. It is a visitor, a migrant, a frail, timid thing, which waits upon the seasons and flees from the ...

— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

... last year I was doomed to London owing to the frivolous holiday proclivities of certain fellow-workers, and again my Baltimore migrant was here, and again we met for our single tete-a-tete. He looked, he said, on a year as wasted, unless a part of it was spent in London and Paris. He was exactly as he had been; his voice had the same slow mirthlessness and ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 • Various

... I found out why the spot had such an unearthly loveliness. Here love had tarried for a moment like a migrant bird that happens on a ship in mid-ocean and for a little while folds its tired wings. The fragrance of a beautiful passion hovered over it like the fragrance of hawthorn in May in the meadows of my ...

— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham

... influence 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 of men who came to visit their families and returned ...

— Negro Migration during the War • Emmett J. Scott

... world, or that portion of it which had not fully accepted all the implications of the doctrine of submission, watched eagerly. But the ships patrolled an empty sea, the searchlights reflected only the glittering saline crystals, the migrant birds never reached their destination. The outpost held, impregnable. Again everyone ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... faint-heard thy passing migrant calls; Thy lazy lizard sprawls On his gray stone, and many slow winds ...

— Songs, Merry and Sad • John Charles McNeill

Words linked to "Migrant" : traveller, migrate, migratory, emigrant, colonist, leaver, migrator, outgoer, migrant shrike, rusher, emigree