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 Definitions of vagabond  [ˈvæg əˌbɒnd]  

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Definition of 'vagabond' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) vagabond
wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic.

2.  vagabond
leading an unsettled or carefree life.

3.  vagabond
disreputable; worthless; shiftless.

4.  vagabond
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a vagabond.

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

6. (n.) vagabond
a person who wanders from place to place; nomad.

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

8.  vagabond
a carefree, worthless, or irresponsible person; rogue.

Etymology:  (1400–50; < LL vagābundus < L vagā(rī) to wander +-bundus adj. suffix)

Definition of 'vagabond' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) vagabond
anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
"pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"

2. (adj) vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

3. (adj) rootless, vagabond
wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
"led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer"

4. (verb) aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
"a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

5. (verb) roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
"The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"


Definition of 'vagabond' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) vagabond
moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering

2. (adj) vagabond
floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro

3. (adj) vagabond
being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious

4. (noun) vagabond
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. (verb) vagabond
to play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll


Translation of 'vagabond' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: an old word for a person having no settled home, or roving from place to place, especially in an idle or disreputable manner
rogues and vagabonds.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: rondloper Arabic flag Arabic: مُتَشَرِّد، أفّاق Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: хаймана
Brazilian flag Brazilian: vagabundo Czech flag Czech: tulák, -čka German flag German: der/die Vagabund(in)
Danish flag Danish: vagabond Greek flag Greek: πλανόβιος, αλήτης (αρχ.) Spanish flag Spanish: vagabundo
Estonian flag Estonian: hulkur Farsi flag Farsi: خانه بدوش؛ آواره Finnish flag Finnish: kiertolainen
French flag French: vagagond/-onde Hebrew flag Hebrew: נוֹדֵד Hindi flag Hindi: आवारा
Croatian flag Croatian: lutalica Hungarian flag Hungarian: csavargó Indonesian flag Indonesian: gelandangan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: flækingur Italian flag Italian: vagabondo Japanese flag Japanese: 放浪者
Korean flag Korean: 방랑자 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: valkata Latvian flag Latvian: klaidonis; dīkdienis
Malay flag Malay: bergelandangan Dutch flag Dutch: vagebond Norwegian flag Norwegian: landstryker, loffer, vaga
Polish flag Polish: włóczęga Portuguese flag Portuguese: vagabundo Romanian flag Romanian: va­ga­­bond
Russian flag Russian: бродяга Slovak flag Slovak: tulák, -čka Slovenian flag Slovenian: klatež
Serbian flag Serbian: vagabundo Swedish flag Swedish: vagabond, landstrykare Thai flag Thai: คนร่อนเร่
Turkish flag Turkish: avare, serseri Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 流浪漢 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: бродяга; пройдисвіт
Urdu flag Urdu: آوارہ گرد، خانہ بدوش Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: tên du đãng Chinese flag Chinese: 流浪者,游手好闲者

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