MIGRANTS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

migrants

noun

plural of migrant

as in immigrants

one that leaves one place to settle in another we traced our family history back to migrants who came to this country seeking a better life for themselves

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Recent Examples of migrants Many of the migrants were already in the process of getting a visa. — October 26, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026 The exercise has already disproportionately disenfranchised the poor, migrants, religious minorities, women—and is bound to continue doing so. — Asim Ali, Time, 24 Oct. 2026 Public sentiment toward refugees and migrants has also hardened elsewhere, creating a crisis for nonprofit aid groups. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 In June, thousands of migrants mainly from Malawi gathered at a park in the city seeking to be repatriated to their home country. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 Obama removed slightly fewer than 380,000 migrants a year during his second term. — Ted Hesson, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 Both Hungary and Poland have laid down markers on allowing migrants into their nations. — Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Doing so is not only a matter of altruism; the United States itself will have to grapple with migrants fleeing failing states, pandemics, and the dangers of climate change. — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026 The 1996 shootdown Brothers to the Rescue was founded to search for Cuban migrants stranded in the Florida Straits. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Most of the immigrants charged in California have lived in the country for at least five years, and some of them for decades.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Eisenkot, 66, a son of Moroccan immigrants who became Israel’s top general, grew up in Tiberias and Eilat, outside the country’s centers of political power.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of immigrants

Noun

As explored in my recent book, this dialect formed from linguistic variation that came in with colonial-era settlers from different places and stations.

— Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Israeli police have arrested 10 suspects in the occupied West Bank following attacks by Jewish settlers over the weekend in which a US journalist and European diplomats were among those injured.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of settlers

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Public sentiment toward refugees and migrants has also hardened elsewhere, creating a crisis for nonprofit aid groups.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The dire economic conditions resulted in one in four Venezuelans, nearly 8 million people, fleeing the country as refugees, creating a massive migration crisis across the Americas.

— Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of refugees

Noun

Baksheng leaves behind a family and then creates a new one with other Teochew emigrants at an inn run by a feminist daughter, Zia Lamgi (Li Sitong) who dodges a revolving door of suitors.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

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