migrate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: migrate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
migrate v move from one country or region to another and settle there; "Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid- 19th century"; "This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries" Synonym(s): migrate, transmigrate move periodically or seasonally; "birds migrate in the Winter"; "The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Migrate \Mi"grate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Migrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Migrating}.] [L. migratus, p. p. of migrare to migrate, transfer.] 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.