Vagabond

[vag·a·bond]

A vagabond is someone who moves around a lot. Picture Boxcar Willie, bandana on a stick thrown over his shoulder, going wherever the breeze takes him.

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Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

Noun
anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"

Noun
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Verb
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 ro

Adjective S.
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

Adjective S.
wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer"

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a.
Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

a.
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

a.
Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

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.

v. i.
To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.


Vagabond

Vag"a*bond , a. [F., fr. L. vagabundus, from vagari to stroll about, from vagus strolling. See Vague.] 1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate.
3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

Vagabond

Vag"a*bond, 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.
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
&hand; 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, n., 1. Burrill. Bouvier.

Vagabond

Vag"a*bond, v. i. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
On every part my vagabonding sight Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight.

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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.

To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

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Usage Examples

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

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