vagabond

[ vag-uh-bond ]

/ ˈvæg əˌbɒnd /

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adjective

wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic: a vagabond tribe.

leading an unsettled or carefree life.

disreputable; worthless; shiftless.

of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagabond: vagabond habits.

having an uncertain or irregular course or direction: a vagabond voyage.

noun

a person, usually without a permanent home, who wanders from place to place; nomad.

an idle wanderer without a permanent home or visible means of support; tramp; vagrant.

a carefree, worthless, or irresponsible person; rogue.

Origin of vagabond

1400–50; late Middle English vagabound (< Old French vagabond) < Late Latin vagābundus wandering, vagrant, equivalent to Latin vagā(rī) to wander + -bundus adj. suffix

SYNONYMS FOR vagabond

7 hobo, loafer. See vagrant.

8 knave, idler.

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OTHER WORDS FROM vagabond

vag·a·bond·ish, adjective

Words nearby vagabond

vadsö, vaduz, vae victis, vafio, vag, vagabond, vagabond's disease, vagabondage, vagal, vagal attack, vagal block

Example sentences from the Web for vagabond

Llewyn Davis is a troubadour and vagabond, one who happens to be in grief.

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Star Oscar Isaac Is About to Be a Very Big Deal |Kevin Fallon |December 5, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.

David's Bookclub: Hard Times |David Frum |September 24, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
“Sarah Palin is a true believer,” Bess told me over coffee at Vagabond Blues, a café 20 miles from Wasilla in the town of Palmer.

Inside Sarah's Church |Max Blumenthal |September 5, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
With other vagabond wanderers, the Frenchman had evidently been rummaging old Nor'-West vaults.

Lords of the North |A. C. Laut

No, little Perrine was not a thief, nor a beggar, nor a vagabond.

Nobody's Girl |Hector Malot
It must have been a vagabond robin swaggering there, really deriding nests, he found so much leisure to sing about them.

Old Crow |Alice Brown
What, send that vagabond to the carriage to ferret about there!

The Poor Plutocrats |Maurus Jkai
Down past the terminal and out the Suburban track, bedraggled and undaunted, stalks the vagabond along the way of knowledge.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for vagabond

vagabond

/ (ˈvæɡəˌbɒnd) /

noun

a person with no fixed home

an idle wandering beggar or thief

(modifier) of or like a vagabond; shiftless or idle

Derived forms of vagabond

vagabondage, noun vagabondish, adjective vagabondism, noun

Word Origin for vagabond

C15: from Latin vagābundus wandering, from vagārī to roam, from vagus vague

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