plural migrants
: someone or something that migrates: such as
a
: a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops
farms employing migrants during the growing season
b
: immigrant sense a
especially
: refugee
… administration officials announced they would work to swiftly screen migrants seeking asylum at the border … and penalize people who cross illegally into the U.S. or illegally through another country on their way to the U.S. border. —
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c
: an animal (such as a gray whale, monarch butterfly, leatherback sea turtle, or Canada goose) that moves usually long distances from one habitat or geographic region to another
migrant
adjective
migrant labor
migrant birds
Examples of migrant in a Sentence
migrants in search of work on farms
Not all birds are migrants.
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Four more African migrants deported from the United States arrived in Eswatini, authorities said Thursday.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
To catalog these stellar migrants, the researchers turned to the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, an observatory tracking the positions, movements and wavelengths of light from more than two billion stars.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
That’s a temporary, discretionary administrative stay of removal that the president can grant to migrants from countries facing conflict or crisis.
—Andres Oppenheimer
march 12, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
Blair also urged Republicans to highlight what the White House has often described as Democratic opposition to removing undocumented migrants from the US, the person added.
—Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 11 Mar. 2026
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Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
To catalog these stellar migrants, the researchers turned to the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, an observatory tracking the positions, movements and wavelengths of light from more than two billion stars.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
That’s a temporary, discretionary administrative stay of removal that the president can grant to migrants from countries facing conflict or crisis.
—Andres Oppenheimer
march 12, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
Blair also urged Republicans to highlight what the White House has often described as Democratic opposition to removing undocumented migrants from the US, the person added.
—Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Migrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/migrant. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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