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Definition of Vagabond
1. Adjective. Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community. "A rootless wanderer"
2. Verb. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. "They vagabond in the countryside"; "They rolled from town to town"
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Maunder, Gad, Gallivant, Jazz Around
Related verbs: Drift, Err, Stray, Wander
Derivative terms: Drifter, Drifting, Ramble, Rambler, Roamer, Roving, Stray, Strayer, Tramp, Vagabondage, Wanderer, Wandering
3. Noun. Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place. "Pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"
4. Adjective. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. "Vagrant hippies of the sixties"
Similar to: Unsettled
Derivative terms: Aimlessness, Vagrancy, Vagrant
5. Noun. A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support.
Specialized synonyms: Beachcomber, Sundowner, Bum, Hobo, Tramp
Generic synonyms: Have-not, Poor Person, Bird Of Passage, Roamer, Rover, Wanderer
Derivative terms: Drift, Vagrant
Definition of Vagabond
1. a. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
2. 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.
3. v. i. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
4. a. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
5. 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.
6. v. i. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
Definition of Vagabond
1. Noun. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time. ¹
2. Noun. A bum, a hobo, a tramp, a homeless person, a rogue, a ne'er-do-well. ¹
3. Verb. To roam, as a vagabond ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Vagabond
1. to live like a vagabond (a vagrant) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Vagabond
1. 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. "A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be." (Gen. Iv. 12) In English and American law, vagabond is used in bad sense, denoting one who is without a home; a strolling, idle, worthless person. Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and alehouses, and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they go." In American law, the term vagrant is employed in the same sense. Cf Rogue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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