The meaning of Drifter

Drifter – definition

noun
A person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job.
Usage examples:
Her songs are peopled with drifters, ramblers, old lovers.
Synonims:
Wanderer Traveller Transient Roamer Tramp Vagabond Vagrant Person of no fixed abode Hobo Derro
noun
A fishing boat equipped with a drift net.
Usage examples:
Other chapters in this informative book cover the drift-net; trawling in the west coast of scotland…

noun
A person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose

Drifter translation into English

Drifter: translate from English into Chinese

漂泊者, 漂泊, 漂网渔船

Drifter: translate from English into Dutch

Zwerver, Haringbuis

Drifter: translate from English into French

Vagabond, Chalutier, Qui manque de stabilité, Qui n'a pas de but dans la vie

Drifter: translate from English into German

Herumtreiber

Drifter: translate from English into Hindi

आवारा, मछली फंसाने की नाव, पर्यटक

Drifter: translate from English into Italian

Vagabondo, Incostante

Drifter: translate from English into Korean

표류자, 유랑 노동자, 유망어선

Drifter: translate from English into Russian

Бродяга, Дрифтер, Никчемный человек, Рыбак, плавающий на дрифтере

Drifter: translate from English into Spanish

Vagabundo, Trainera, Soltero

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Drifter – similar words

drifters

noun
A person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job.
Usage examples:
Her songs are peopled with drifters, ramblers, old lovers.

noun
A person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose

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Drifter synonims

hobo

noun
A homeless person; a tramp or vagrant.
Usage examples:
Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars …

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roamer

noun
Someone who likes to move around and travel, especially without a clear idea of what they want to do
Usage examples:
He's a bit of a roamer, so he could be anywhere in the country., roamers move abroad with just a co…

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tramp

verb
Walk heavily or noisily.
Usage examples:
He tramped about the room

noun
A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.
Usage examples:
In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, va…

verb
To walk with heavy steps
Usage examples:
[ i ] i’ve been tramping through museums all day., tramps knew the houses where you got good food.,…

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transient

adjective
Lasting only for a short time; impermanent.
Usage examples:
A transient cold spell

noun
A person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only.
Usage examples:
The law had been applied to hotels and motels to collect a tax from transients, vacationers, and tr…

adjective
Lasting for only a short time; temporary
Usage examples:
The weakness was transient, and soon i was feeling strong again., transient workers come to pick ap…

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traveller

noun
A person who is travelling or who often travels.
Usage examples:
Thousands of air travellers were left stranded

noun
A person who travels often, or who is travelling
Usage examples:
Air/rail travellers, business/independent/leisure travellers, business travellers make up just 20% …

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vagabond

noun
A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.
Usage examples:
Vagabond tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the …

adjective
Having no settled home.
Usage examples:
A vagabond poacher

verb
Wander about as or like a vagabond.
Usage examples:
He went vagabonding about the world

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vagrant

noun
A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
Usage examples:
When stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the bowery in chinatown, photographi…

adjective
Relating to or living the life of a vagrant.
Usage examples:
Vagrant beggars

noun
A person who has no home or job and who moves from place to place

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wanderer

ˈwɒnd(ə)rə

noun
A person who travels aimlessly; a traveller.
Usage examples:
He is a longtime seaman, a rootless wanderer

All meanings and translations of Wanderer

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