mi・grantの英語

語源

Borrowed from French migrant.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/

名詞

migrant (plural migrants)

1. A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.

   Hypernyms: bird < animal < creature

   Hyponym: snowbird

   Coordinate term: resident

   • 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:

     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. (informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
   • 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN‎:

     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.

   • 2021 April 22, Aryn Baker, “Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?”, in Time‎:

     “But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”

4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.

下位語

• emigrant
• immigrant

関連する語

• migrate
• migration

形容詞

migrant (comparative more migrant, superlative most migrant)

1. Migratory.

派生語

アナグラム

• Ntigram, marting