migrant

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
    — Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."
  2. Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
  3. A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another. informal
    — These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
  4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
形容词 adj.
  1. Migratory.

词形变化

migrants plural more migrant comparative most migrant superlative

词汇关系

下位词
emigrant immigrant
相关词
migrate migration

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
French migrantbor.
English migrant
Borrowed from French migrant.
词源 2
Etymology tree
French migrantbor.
English migrant
Borrowed from French migrant.
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