transmigrant

[ trans-mahy-gruhnt, tranz- ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that transmigrates, or moves or passes from one place to another.

  2. a person passing through a country or place on the way to another place in which they intend to settle.

adjective
  1. passing from one place or state to another.

Origin of transmigrant

1
First recorded in 1665–75; from Latin trānsmigrant- (stem of trānsmigrāns ), present participle of trānsmigrāre “to depart, migrate”; see trans-, migrant

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How to use transmigrant in a sentence

  • She was as the transmigrant soul of some domestic pig, faintly aware of a nobler status in some previous existence.

    The House by the River | A. P. Herbert

British Dictionary definitions for transmigrant

transmigrant

/ (trænzˈmaɪɡrənt, ˈtrænzmɪɡrənt) /


noun
  1. an emigrant on the way to the country of immigration

adjective
  1. passing through from one place or stage to another

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