migrant

1. 1.

   habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work

   “appalled by the social conditions of migrant life”

   “migratory workers”

   Synonymsmigratory

   Similarunsettled

Other forms of migrant

plural

migrants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about migrant

What does migrant mean?

migrant means "traveler who moves from one region or country to another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in migrant?

migrant has 2 syllables: mi-grant. The stress falls on "mi". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/.

What is another word for migrant?

Close synonyms include migrator, migratory. 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 migrant a common word?

migrant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.