migrants

noun

plural of migrant
as in immigrants
one that leaves one place to settle in another we traced our family history back to migrants who came to this country seeking a better life for themselves

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Recent Examples of migrants Both Hungary and Poland have laid down markers on allowing migrants into their nations. — Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Doing so is not only a matter of altruism; the United States itself will have to grapple with migrants fleeing failing states, pandemics, and the dangers of climate change. — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026 The 1996 shootdown Brothers to the Rescue was founded to search for Cuban migrants stranded in the Florida Straits. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026 That has influenced the religious makeup of migrants to the United States. — Johanna Bard Richlin, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 The President has also previously pitched shooting migrants to keep them from entering the country. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Connected through a community center, the women are helping neighbors and migrants, stepping in where institutions fail. — Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 The Houthis had also been forcibly recruiting large numbers of children and Ethiopian migrants, using them as human shields, spies and for dangerous mine-planting. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 15 Oct. 2026 During a recent visit to Ceuta, The Associated Press found many underage migrants still living on the streets. — Joseph Wilson, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for migrants
  1. immigrants
  2. settlers
  3. refugees
  4. emigrants
Noun
  • Most of the immigrants charged in California have lived in the country for at least five years, and some of them for decades.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Eisenkot, 66, a son of Moroccan immigrants who became Israel’s top general, grew up in Tiberias and Eilat, outside the country’s centers of political power.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of immigrants
Noun
  • As explored in my recent book, this dialect formed from linguistic variation that came in with colonial-era settlers from different places and stations.
    — Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Israeli police have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank following attacks by Jewish settlers over the weekend in which a US journalist and European diplomats were among those injured.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of settlers
Noun
  • The case centers on the Cuban government shooting down two Brothers to the Rescue flights, a civilian rescue group dedicated to saving refugees fleeing the authoritarian Castro regime — then run by Raul Castro’s older brother Fidel.
    — Liv Caputo Herald, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Trump has vastly expanded ICE to ramp up deportations of immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers, and the agency was a major part of last year’s law-enforcement surge in the Chicago area known as Operation Midway Blitz.
    — Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of refugees
Noun
  • Baksheng leaves behind a family and then creates a new one with other Teochew emigrants at an inn run by a feminist daughter, Zia Lamgi (Li Sitong) who dodges a revolving door of suitors.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Definition of emigrants

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“Migrants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/migrants. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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