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Migrate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Migrate has 2 senses
- migrate(v = verb.motion) transmigrate - 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" is one way to move
- migrate(v = verb.motion) Array - move periodically or seasonally; "birds migrate in the Winter"; "The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting" is one way to move
Derived forms noun migrant1, noun migration1, noun migration2, noun migrator2, noun migrator1, adjective migratory2
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Derived forms adjective migrant1, noun migration4, adjective migratory2, adjective migratory1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Migrate, v. i. [L. migratus, p. p. of migrare to migrate, transfer.].
- To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West. [1913 Webster]
- To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Migrate, v.intr.
1 (of people) move from one place of abode to another, esp. in a different country.
2 (of a bird or fish) change its area of habitation with the seasons.
3 move under natural forces.
1 (of people) move from one place of abode to another, esp. in a different country.
2 (of a bird or fish) change its area of habitation with the seasons.
3 move under natural forces.
Derivative
migration n. migrational adj. migrator n. migratory adj.
Etymology
L migrare migrat-
THESAURUS
Migrate
drift, emigrate, expatriate, flit, go, immigrate, in-migrate, intermigrate, move, nomadize, out-migrate, range, relocate, remigrate, resettle, roam, rove, run, settle, swarm, take wing, transmigrate, travel, trek, voyage, wanderROGET THESAURUS
Migrate
Journey
VB travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
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