transmigrant

[ trans-mahy-gruhnt, tranz- ]

noun

1. a person or thing that transmigrates, or moves or passes from one place to another.
2. a person passing through a country or place on the way to another place in which they intend to settle.

adjective

1. passing from one place or state to another.

transmigrant

/ trænzˈmaɪɡrənt; ˈtrænzmɪɡrənt /

noun

1. an emigrant on the way to the country of immigration

adjective

1. passing through from one place or stage to another

Word History and Origins

Origin of transmigrant¹

First recorded in 1665–75; from Latin trānsmigrant- (stem of trānsmigrāns ), present participle of trānsmigrāre “to depart, migrate”; trans-, migrant

Example Sentences

He presented himself at the British consulate in Kraków with only the clothes he stood up in, but in May 1939 managed to get a document to travel to the UK on the condition that he was a “transmigrant” who must emigrate elsewhere and must not try to find employment in Britain.

From The Guardian

But what matters all that has been said and all that will be said about the soul? what does it matter that it has been called entelechy, quintessence, flame, ether? that it has been thought universal, uncreated, transmigrant, etc.?

From Project Gutenberg

It is as if he were writing the history of man, from the last day of creation forward, starting with a few transmigrant souls still under the control of their oversea existence.

From Project Gutenberg

I cannot regard it as merely fantastic to believe that the Dejection, that dirge of infinite pathos over the grave of creative imagination, might, but for the fatal decree which had by that time gone forth against Coleridge's health and happiness, have been but the cradle-cry of a new-born poetic power, in which imagination, not annihilated but transmigrant, would have splendidly proved its vitality through other forms of song.

From Project Gutenberg