adj
Meaning 1
Migrating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: etc
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
migratory
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, US: /ˈmaɪ.ɡɹəˌtɔɹ.i/
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UK: /ˌmaɪˈɡɹeɪ.tə.ɹi/
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adj
Meaning 2
Roving; wandering; nomadic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- migratory habits; a migratory life
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Clipping of migratory bird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
used of animals that move seasonally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- migratory birds
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonmigratory
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- appalled by the social conditions of migrant life
- migratory workers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: migrant
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin migrātōrius or migrate + -ory.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мигриращ (migrirašt) — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Bulgarian: прелетен (preleten) — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Catalan: migratori — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Czech: stěhovavý — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Dutch: trek- — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Finnish: muutto- — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Finnish: vaellus- — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- French: migrateur — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Galician: migratorio — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- German: Zug- — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Irish: imirceach — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Irish: aistreánach — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Italian: migratorio — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Italian: migrante — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Polish: przelotny — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Northern Sami: bárbmo- — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Scottish Gaelic: imrich — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Spanish: migratorio — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Turkish: göçebe — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Turkish: göçmen — (of birds, etc) that migrate
- Welsh: ymfudol — (of birds, etc) that migrate
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