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# migration

«migration» in Mova's school dictionary: **The movement of animals, often in large groups, from one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (migration, migrations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The movement of animals, often in large groups, from one place to another at the same time each year, to find food, warmth or a place to breed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#m1)

2) The movement of people from one place or country to live in another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#m2)

3) Migration can also mean a story or fable spreading from one country to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, birds such as swallows and geese fly south for winter, whales swim to warm seas, and wildebeest cross Africa — all migration. In geography and history, people migrate for work, safety or family. Phrases: «bird migration», «the great migration», «migration route».

### examples

- Swallows fly to Africa during their migration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#x1)
- Many birds use the stars on their migration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#x2)
- The wildebeest migration crosses rivers full of crocodiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#x3)
- Whales make a long migration every year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#x4)
- Some families come to a new country by migration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#x5)
- Geese fly in a V shape during migration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#x6)
- It is difficult to imagine that we have not here the actual migration of the tale from East to West. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/#x7)

### note

Mostly uncountable; countable for single journeys: «two migrations». Verb: migrate. People who migrate are migrants. Hibernation (sleeping through winter) is different from migration (moving away).

### In the corpora

- [Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/17/)
- [Migration means people moving to live in another place, inside their country or abroad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/21/)
- [Migration is a long journey animals make to find food, warmth or a place to have young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/5/)
- [The Arctic tern makes one of the longest migrations, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «migration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/migration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.