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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person without a permanent home who moves from place to place.
  2. n. A vagrant; a tramp.
  3. n. A wanderer; a rover.
  4. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a wanderer; nomadic.
  5. adj. Aimless; drifting.
  6. adj. Irregular in course or behavior; unpredictable.
  7. v. To lead the life of a vagabond; roam about.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Wandering; moving from place to place without any settled habitation; nomadic.
  2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  3. Of or pertaining to a vagabond or worthless stroller; vagrant.
  4. Not sedentary, as a spider; belonging to the Vagabundæ.
  5. n. One who is without a settled home; one who goes from place to place; a wanderer; a vagrant: not necessarily in a bad sense.
  6. n. An idle, worthless stroller from place to place without, fixed habitation or visible means of earning an honest livelihood; in law, an idle, worthless vagrant. See vagrant.
  7. n. An idle, worthless fellow; a scamp; a rascal.
  8. n. One of the Vagabundæ.
  9. n. A pyralid moth, Crambus vulgivagellus. See cut under Crambidæ.
  10. To wander about in an idle manner; play the vagabond: sometimes with an indefinite it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  2. n. A bum, a hobo, a tramp, a homeless person, a rogue, a ne'er-do-well.
  3. v. To roam, as a vagabond

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
  2. adj. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  3. adj. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
  4. n. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
  5. v. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  2. adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
  3. n. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
  4. adj. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
  5. n. anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place

Etymologies

  1. Latin vagabundus, from vagari, ‘wander’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English vagabonde, from Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, wandering, from Latin vagārī, to wander, from vagus, wandering. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (19)

Words with the same meaning

  1. wandering
  2. vagrant
  3. tramp
  1. rascal
  2. stroll
  3. wanderer
  1. stroller
  2. tramper
  3. lurdan
  1. loafer
  2. palliard
  3. shack
  1. canter
  2. landloper
  3. landlouper
  1. gangrel
  2. landloping
  3. landlouping
  1. truant

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘vagabond’

  1. unsettled

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. worker

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. physical object
  1. object
  1. person

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. scoundrel
  2. beggar
  3. outcast
  4. adventurer
  1. drunkard
  2. ruffian
  3. thief
  4. wretch
  1. reprobate
  2. robber
  3. scamp
  4. rogue
  1. outlaw
  2. loafer
  3. liar
  4. gambler
  1. villain
  2. wanderer
  3. knave
  4. madman
  1. marauder
  2. hypocrite
  3. swindler
  4. Gypsy

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. sundowner
  2. tramp
  3. vagabond
  4. vagabondize
  5. javel
  6. Ishmaelite
  7. gue
  8. lorel
  9. drazel
  10. loller
  11. Gypsy
  12. kern
  13. landlouper
  14. paillard
  15. tinkler
  1. vagabondish
  2. vagabondism
  3. vagabone
  4. whipjack
  5. bohemian
  6. musard
  7. palliard
  8. pautener
  9. rapparee
  10. rapscallion
  11. rinabout
  12. rin-thereout
  13. roguish
  14. ruffler
  15. runabout
  1. scatterling
  2. shack
  3. stroller
  4. street arab
  5. gadling
  6. circumforaneous
  7. citigrada
  8. faitor
  9. gang-there-out
  10. hedge-creeper
  11. hedge-parson
  12. kinchin-cove
  13. landleaper
  14. land-raker
  15. loaf
  1. runagate
  2. gangrel
  3. Unscented
  4. Bohemian
  5. shackbag
  6. fugitive
  7. road
  8. outcast
  9. paddy
  10. renegade
  11. rogue
  12. straggler
  13. tramper
  14. twire-pipe
  15. vagabondage
  1. vagrant
  2. vague
  3. Bedouin
  4. blackguard
  5. circumcellion
  6. extravagant
  7. Gipsy
  8. grig
  9. mouch
  10. moucher
  11. pariah
  12. pemphigus
  13. ragamuffin
  14. salticidæ
  15. scamp
  1. slang
  2. truant
  3. waif
  4. waster

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  • PossibleUnderscore Isn't there a reference to this in 'Can You Fell the Love Tonight'? It sounds a lot like they say 'vegabond' though, so I'm not sure. Jul 28, 2009

  • bilby
    There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
    We must rise and follow her,
    When from every hill of flame
    She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
    - Bliss Carman, 'A Vagabond Song'. Nov 3, 2008

  • bilby Thanks WeirdNET. Apr 19, 2008

  • plethora Aw yeah, gimme some of them vagrant fashion tips. Apr 19, 2008

  • bilby Like this, maybe. Apr 19, 2008

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