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migrant

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mi⋅grant

  [mahy-gruhnt]
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–adjective
1. migrating, esp. of people; migratory.
–noun
2. a person or animal that migrates.
3. Also called migrant worker. a person who moves from place to place to get work, esp. a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.
Origin:
1665–75; < L migrant- (s. of migrāns), prp. of migrāre. See migrate, -ant
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mi·grant   (mī'grənt)   
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.

[Latin migrāns, migrant-, present participle of migrāre, to migrate; see migrate.]
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Word Origin & History

migrant  (adj.)
1672, from L. migrantem (nom. migrans), prp. of migrare "to move from one place to another" (see migration). The noun meaning "person who migrates" is first recorded 1670.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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