migrant

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: mi=grant

CIDE DICTIONARY

migrant, a. [L. migrans, p. pr. of migrare. See Migrate.].

 Migratory.  [1913 Webster]

migrant, n. 

•  A migratory bird, person, or other animal.
•  A person who changes residence frequently in search of employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting crops seasonally; also called migrant laborer or migrant worker. Sometimes the migrant worker is not a resident of the country in which the work is performed.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

migrant, adj. & n.
--adj. that migrates.
--n. a migrant person or animal, esp. a bird.

THESAURUS

migrant

DP, avifauna, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, cage bird, casual, casual laborer, chick, common laborer, cygnet, day laborer, displaced person, diving bird, dove, drifter, drifting, eagle, eaglet, emigrant, emigre, employee, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, factory worker, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, floating, flunky, fowl, free lance, free-lancer, fruit-eating bird, full-time worker, fulmar, game bird, gypsy, hand, immigrant, in-migrant, industrial worker, insect-eating bird, itinerant, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrator, migratory, migratory bird, migratory worker, mobile, moiler, mover, navvy, nestling, nomad, nomadic, office temporary, oscine bird, out-migrant, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, peregrinator, peripatetic, pigeon, proletarian, ratite, roustabout, rover, salaried worker, sea bird, seed-eating bird, self-employed person, servant, shore bird, songbird, squab, stateless person, stiff, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, temporary, toiler, transient, transmigratory, traveler, traveller, trekker, vagrant, wading bird, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, wanderer, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wayfarer, wetback, wildfowl, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman