migrator

Other forms: migrators

Definitions of migrator

1. noun

   traveler who moves from one region or country to another
   synonyms: migrant

   types:

   departer, goer, leaver

   someone who leaves

   emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer

   someone who leaves one country to settle in another

   evacuee

   a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place

   immigrant

   a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

   rusher

   someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory

   colonist, settler

   a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country

   Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father

   one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620

   pioneer

   one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

   sourdough

   a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)

   homesteader, nester, squatter

   someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it

   type of:

   traveler, traveller

   a person who changes location
2. noun

   an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year
   type of:

   animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement