migrate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
    transmigrate.
    • Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
    • This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
  2. verb move periodically or seasonally
    • birds migrate in the Winter
    • The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting

WordNet

Mi"grate intransitive verb
Etymology
L. migratus, p. p. of migrare to migrate, transfer.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Migrated ; present participle & verbal noun Migrating
Definitions
  1. To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.
  2. To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

Webster 1913