What does migrant mean?
Migrant means A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird..
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/ˈmaɪɡɹənt/ · noun
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."
These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
“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.”
Use migrant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Migrant means A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird..
Common synonyms include unsettled, migratory.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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."
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