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vagrant
[ vey-gruhnt ]
noun
- a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
- Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.
- a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.
- wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage:
vagrant beggars.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant:
the vagrant life.
- wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.
- (of plants) straggling in growth.
- not fixed or settled, especially in course; moving hither and thither:
a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.
vagrant
/ ˈveɪɡrənt /
noun
- a person of no settled abode, income, or job; tramp
- a migratory animal that is off course
adjective
- wandering about; nomadic
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant or vagabond
- moving in an erratic fashion, without aim or purpose; wayward
- (of plants) showing uncontrolled or straggling growth
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Derived Forms
- ˈvagrantness, noun
- ˈvagrantly, adverb
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Other Words From
- vagrant·ly adverb
- vagrant·ness noun
- non·vagrant adjective
- non·vagrant·ly adverb
- non·vagrant·ness noun
- un·vagrant adjective
- un·vagrant·ly adverb
- un·vagrant·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vagrant1
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Origin of vagrant1
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Example Sentences
In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”
Yet the word vagrant is a misnomer in this city, where economy has reached a finesse that is marvelous.
For the first time Bud had a vagrant suspicion that Foster had not told quite all there was to tell about this trip.
Orders were issued to the boards of management of the newly created vagrant districts, telling them that they need not meet.
Yet even for the professional vagrant the promiscuous London casual ward of 1864 was not to be extended.
Says one of the characters, referring to the importunities of a tipsy vagrant, “Give him half-a-crown!”
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