migrate
verbOPAL W
/maɪˈɡreɪt/
/ˈmaɪɡreɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they migrate | /maɪˈɡreɪt/ /ˈmaɪɡreɪt/ |
| he / she / it migrates | /maɪˈɡreɪts/ /ˈmaɪɡreɪts/ |
| past simple migrated | /maɪˈɡreɪtɪd/ /ˈmaɪɡreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle migrated | /maɪˈɡreɪtɪd/ /ˈmaɪɡreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form migrating | /maɪˈɡreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈmaɪɡreɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (of birds, animals, etc.) to move from one part of the world to another according to the season
- Swallows migrate south in winter.
Extra ExamplesTopics Birdsb2- Migrating birds often rest and feed in the marshes here.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
- northwards
- etc.
- …
- from
- into
- to
- …
- [intransitive] (of a lot of people) to move from one town, country, etc. to go and live and/or work in another synonym emigrate
- Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work.
- Several thousand years ago whole populations migrated to north-west Europe.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
- northwards
- etc.
- …
- from
- into
- to
- …
- [intransitive] (specialist) to move from one place to another
- The infected cells then migrate to other areas of the body.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
- northwards
- etc.
- …
- from
- into
- to
- …
- [intransitive, transitive] migrate (somebody) (computing) to change, or cause somebody to change, from one computer system to another
- [transitive] migrate something (computing) to move programs or hardware from one computer system to another
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘move from one place to another’): from Latin migrat- ‘moved, shifted’, from the verb migrare.