migrant

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 3.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
2. noun Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
3. noun A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
4. noun Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
5. adjective Migratory.

Similar words

unsettled migratory allochthonous floating nomadic movement mobile inward migrate emigrate

Often followed by

workers labour labor and women worker farm children population

Word family

migrants migrate migrated migrates migrating migration migrations migratory