migrate

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: mi=grate

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.

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, wander

ROGET 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.