noun 1.a person or thing that transmigrates.
2.a person passing through a country or place on the way to another place in
which he or she intends to settle.
adjective 3.passing from one place or state to another.
Origin: 1665–75; <
Latin trānsmigrant- (stem of
trānsmigrāns), present participle of
trānsmigrāre to depart, migrate. See
trans-,
migrant