The meaning of Vagabond

adjective

Relating to or adapted for walking.

Usage examples:

Continuous ambulatory dialysis

noun

A place for walking, especially an aisle or cloister in a church or monastery.

Usage examples:

The front arch of the old ambulatory

noun

A person who walks along a beach looking for valuable or interesting items.

Usage examples:

The beachcombers were able to gather and hide a rich harvest before the local magistrate learned of…

noun

A person who walks along beaches looking for objects of value or interest

Usage examples:

The area is popular with surfers and beachcombers., some beachcombers use metal detectors.

noun

A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.

Usage examples:

How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or…

verb

Reduce (someone) to poverty.

Usage examples:

Why should i beggar myself for you?

noun

A poor person who lives by asking others for money or food

adjective

In a very poor condition as a result of disuse and neglect.

Usage examples:

A derelict georgian mansion

noun

A person without a home, job, or property.

Usage examples:

Derelicts who could fit all their possessions in a paper bag

adjective

(of buildings or equipment) not cared for and in bad condition

verb

Take over the place, position, or role of.

Usage examples:

He believes that books may be displaced by the electronic word

adjective

Having been forced to leave your home, for example by a war or dangerous event

Usage examples:

They distribute food and other aid to displaced civilians., nearly four months after the hurricane,…

adjective

Having no luck, no money, and no opportunities

Usage examples:

A down-and-out loser, nobody loves you when you're down and out., i was never a down-and-out, but i…

verb

Be carried slowly by a current of air or water.

Usage examples:

The cabin cruiser started to drift downstream

noun

A continuous slow movement from one place to another.

Usage examples:

There was a drift to the towns

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

adjective

Buoyant or suspended in water or air.

Usage examples:

A floating platform

verb

Rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking.

Usage examples:

She relaxed, floating gently in the water

adjective

Not fixed in one position, place, or level

Usage examples:

The city has a large floating population (= people who move around a lot)., the bank has offered us…

noun

A member of a people originating in south asia and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across europe and north and south america and speaking a language (romani) that is related to hindi; a romani person.

Usage examples:

He was a political and social activist who devoted twenty years of his life to regaining the rights…

adjective

(of a business or worker) non-unionized or unlicensed.

Usage examples:

Gypsy trucking firms

noun

A member of a group of people who travel from place to place esp. in europe and who originally came from northern india, or anyone who travels often and does not live in one place for long

adjective

(of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets.

Usage examples:

The plight of young homeless people

adjective

Having no place to live

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A homeless person, homelessness is a major problem in large cities., the homeless sometimes have to…

adjective

Travelling from place to place.

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Itinerant traders

noun

A person who travels from place to place.

Usage examples:

A party of itinerants travelling in around 24 vehicles arrived at the factory on sunday evening.

adjective

(of a person) traveling from one place to another, usually to work for a short period

Usage examples:

Itinerant farm workers

verb

Travel somewhere.

Usage examples:

They journeyed south

noun

An act of travelling from one place to another.

Usage examples:

An eight-hour train journey

verb

Present participle of journey

Usage examples:

As we journeyed south, the landscape became drier and rockier.

noun

A person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions.

Usage examples:

To prevent this happening 12 member countries have put a block on migrants moving there until up to…

adjective

Tending to migrate or having migrated.

Usage examples:

Migrant birds

noun

A person who travels to another place or country, usually in order to find work

Usage examples:

The cities are full of migrants looking for work., the pay is enough to attract migrants but unappe…

verb

(of an animal, typically a bird or fish) move from one region or habitat to another according to the seasons.

Usage examples:

As autumn arrives, the birds migrate south

verb

Present participle of migrate

Usage examples:

These animals migrate annually in search of food., in september, these birds migrate 2,000 miles so…

adjective

Denoting an animal that migrates.

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Migratory birds

adjective

Having the characteristic of moving regularly to another place

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Migratory birds

adjective

Able to move or be moved freely or easily.

Usage examples:

He has a weight problem and is not very mobile

noun

A decorative structure that is suspended so as to turn freely in the air.

Usage examples:

Brightly coloured mobiles rotated from the ceiling

suffix

Forming nouns denoting vehicles of a particular type.

Usage examples:

Snowmobile

noun

A member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.

Usage examples:

The withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the sahara to descend into the nile valley

noun

A member of a group of people who move from one place to another, rather than living in one place all of the time

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Nomadic people

adjective

Living the life of a nomad; wandering.

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Nomadic herdsmen

adjective

Moving from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time

Usage examples:

Nomadic people/herdsmen, a nomadic life/existence

noun

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Usage examples:

Tens of thousands of refugees fled their homes

noun

A person who leaves his or her home or country to find safety, esp. during a war or for political or religious reasons

adjective

Moving about aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area.

Usage examples:

Roaming herds of reindeer

noun

The practice of using a mobile phone on another operator's network, typically while abroad.

Usage examples:

Eu officials have been cutting the fees companies can charge for roaming

verb

Move about or travel aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area.

Usage examples:

Tigers once roamed over most of asia

adjective

(of a plant) not having roots.

Usage examples:

A rootless flowering plant

adjective

Having no family origins or connections, or having no feeling of belonging to a particular place

noun

A person who spends their time wandering.

Usage examples:

They became rovers who departed further and further from civilization

noun

A pirate.

noun

A person or machine that makes roves of fibre.

adjective

Constantly moving from one area or place to another.

Usage examples:

The fragments of pottery were believed to belong to a community of roving hunter-gatherers

noun

A sliver of cotton, wool, or other fibre, drawn out and slightly twisted, especially preparatory to spinning.

Usage examples:

The energy used to create the fibers - it starts with a plant, then the cords are removed, the mate…

verb

Travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander.

Usage examples:

He spent most of the 1990s roving about the caribbean

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.,…

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…

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% …

adjective

Going or being transported from place to place.

Usage examples:

A travelling exhibition of dutch 17th-century masterpieces

noun

The action or activity of going from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length.

Usage examples:

One thing i've learned from travelling is that you have to respect other countries

verb

Go from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length.

Usage examples:

The vessel had been travelling from libya to ireland

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

noun

A person who travels aimlessly; a traveller.

Usage examples:

He is a longtime seaman, a rootless wanderer

adjective

Travelling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant.

Usage examples:

A wandering preacher

verb

Walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way.

Usage examples:

I wandered through the narrow streets

noun

A person who travels on foot.

Usage examples:

After travel, the wayfarer's home is not the same anymore.

noun

Someone who travels on foot