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say it: MAHY-grayt
migrate is a verb meaning "move from one country or region to another and settle there". It is pronounced /ˈmaɪˌɡɹeɪt/ — MAHY-grayt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
move from one country or region to another and settle there
“Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century”
“This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries”
move periodically or seasonally
“birds migrate in the Winter”
“The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for migrate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.