migrator

noun

Definition of migratornext
as in pilgrim

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  1. pilgrim
  2. pioneer
  3. newcomer
  4. colonist
Noun
  • Hybe’s Seoul headquarters is a nineteen-story tower swarming with activity: each day, hundreds of pilgrims show up, hoping for a glimpse of their idols.
    Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The relic trade was big business at the time; relics were bought and sold, and pilgrims often paid a fee to visit them.
    Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of pilgrim
Noun
  • Gaylord Wilshire, as he was called, is better remembered today as a real estate developer and pioneer of billboard advertising.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Initiatives like Tokyo’s showcase how cities can shift from being major polluters to pioneers of green energy and resilience.
    Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of pioneer
Noun
  • Opening with a shot of Laura questioning Raúl, the teaser cuts quickly to a close-up of one of his architectural models before shifting feverishly through his emotions as clips of the marauding newcomers are fiercely intertwined with his declining sanity.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
  • One man changed everything, an MVP of MVPs, the greatest Dodgers newcomer since Valenzuela, the greatest Dodgers season ever.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of newcomer
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  • The first colonists would encounter a barren landscape without water or breathable atmosphere, bathed in deadly solar and galactic radiation from which Earthbound humans are protected by our planet’s atmosphere and magnetic field.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The birds have strutted the streets for hundreds of years, arriving in the 1600s with some of the earliest European colonists, according to the New York Public Library.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of colonist
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