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单词 great migration
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Definition of great migration in English:

great migration

noun
  • 1(Usually with the) any of the major or significant migratory movements of peoples in ancient or historic times.

  • 2NZ History (also with capital initials), (according to a Maori founding myth, now considered of doubtful historicity) the migration of Polynesian peoples in a fleet of canoes from Hawaiki to New Zealand in the 14th cent.; also called heke.

Origin

Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Milman (1791–1868), historian and dean of St Paul's.

Definition of great migration in US English:

great migration

noun
  • 1(Usually with the) any of the major or significant migratory movements of peoples in ancient or historic times.

  • 2NZ History (also with capital initials), (according to a Maori founding myth, now considered of doubtful historicity) the migration of Polynesian peoples in a fleet of canoes from Hawaiki to New Zealand in the 14th cent.; also called heke.

Origin

Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Milman (1791–1868), historian and dean of St Paul's.

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