bird of passage

1. 1.

   someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

   Synonymswandererroamerrover

   Broadertraveler

   Narrowernomadvagrant
2. 2.

   any bird that migrates seasonally

   Broaderbird

Questions about bird of passage

What does bird of passage mean?

bird of passage means "someone who leads a wandering unsettled life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bird of passage?

Close synonyms include wanderer, roamer, rover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bird of passage a common word?

bird of passage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.