migrant

migrant
adj
1. roving, wandering, migrating, migratory. See migratory(defs.1, 2).
n
2. migrator, journeyer, wanderer, traveler, wayfarer, viator, trekker; passerby, peregrinator, bird of passage, landloper; globetrotter, world-traveler.
3. migrant or migratory worker, itinerant, Inf. dust cropper, Inf.Okie, Inf. wetback; day laborer, roustabout, floater, drifter, rounder, Sl. stiff, Sl. bindlestiff; tramp, knight or king of the road, Sl. hobo, Sl. bo, Sl. haut beau; All Australian. Inf. sundowner, swagman, swagsman.
4. commuter, transient, shuttler, passenger, fare, Inf. straphanger; voyager, sailor, mariner; beachcomber, beach bum, surf bum, tennis bum, ski bum; troubadour, wandering minstrel, strolling player.
5. gypsy, bohemian, kuchi, Romany, Sp. gitano. tzigane; nomad, Bedouin, Arab.
6. immigrant, Fr. Emigre. emigrant, expatriate; evacuee, displaced person, DP, stateless person, Wandering Jew, Ancient Mariner, Ishmael, Flying Dutchman; peripatetic, rolling stone, peregrine.
7. waif, homeless waif, ragamuffin, gamin, gamine, urchin, street urchin, street Arab, mudlark, Inf. guttersnipe; beggar, tatterdemalion, street person, street dweller, ragman, rag and bones man, ragpicker, bag lady, junk or trash picker; vagabond, vagrant, Inf. bum.

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