va•grantˈveɪ grənt(n.)

1. a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond.

2. Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.

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3. a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.

4. (adj.)wandering or roaming from place to place.

5. of or characteristic of a vagrant.

6. wandering idly without a permanent home or employment:

   vagrant beggars.

7. (of plants) straggling in growth.

8. not fixed or settled, esp. in course:

   a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.

Origin of vagrant:

1400–50; late ME vagaraunt, appar. prp. of AF *vagrer, perh. < ME *vagren, b. vagen (< L vagārī to wander) and *walcren (> OF wa(u)crer), freq. der. of walk

va′grant•ly(adv.)