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Noun migration has 4 senses
- migration(n = noun.act) Array - the movement of persons from one country or locality to another; Array has particulars: emigration, expatriation, out-migration, immigration, in-migration, gold rush
- migration(n = noun.group) Array - a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period); Array is a kind of people
- migration(n = noun.event) Array - (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule; Array is a kind of event
- migration(n = noun.event) Array - the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding; Array is a kind of periodic event, recurrent event
is a kind of motion, move, movement
Derived forms verb migrate1, adjective migrational1
Derived form verb migrate1
Derived forms verb migrate2, adjective migrational1
CIDE DICTIONARY
migration, n. [L. migratio: cf. F. migration.].
The act of migrating. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
migration
communication, conduction, contagion, convection, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dissemination, emigration, expatriation, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, flight, immigration, import, importation, in-migration, interchange, intermigration, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutual transfer, osmosis, out-migration, passage, passing over, perfusion, remigration, run, spread, spreading, swarm, swarming, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, trekROGET THESAURUS
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Journey
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.
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