'Vagabond' definitions:
Definition of 'vagabond'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless, vagabond]
adjective
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant]
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 [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond]
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 rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
Definition of 'Vagabond'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. --Gen. iv. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Note: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vagabond'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. [1913 Webster]
- To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vagabond'
From: GCIDE
- Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, v. i. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. [1913 Webster]
- On every part my vagabonding sight Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight. --Drummond. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'vagabond'
From: Easton
- Vagabond from Lat. vagabundus, "a wanderer," "a fugitive;" not used opprobriously (Gen. 4:12, R.V., "wanderer;" Ps. 109:10; Acts 19:13, R.V., "strolling").
Synonyms of 'vagabond'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Arab,
- arab,
- bat around,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- bird of passage,
- blighter,
- bo,
- Bowery bum,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- canter,
- circumforaneous,
- count ties,
- derelict,
- devil,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagatory,
- dogie,
- drift,
- drifter,
- drifting,
- drunkard,
- errant,
- flit,
- flitting,
- floater,
- floating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- fugitive,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gadding,
- gallivant,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- go about,
- go the rounds,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- guttersnipe,
- gypsy,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- human wreck,
- idler,
- itinerant,
- jaunt,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- landloper,
- landloping,
- lazzarone,
- loafer,
- losel,
- lowlife,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- meander,
- meandering,
- migrant,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- mooch,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- no-good,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nomadize,
- pauvre diable,
- perambulatory,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- peripatetic,
- piker,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- prowl,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- range,
- ranging,
- roadster,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rolling stone,
- rounder,
- rove,
- rover,
- roving,
- run about,
- runagate,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- saunter,
- shack,
- shifting,
- ski bum,
- skid-row bum,
- stiff,
- straggle,
- straggling,
- stray,
- straying,
- street arab,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- stroll,
- strolling,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagger,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- traipse,
- traipsing,
- tramp,
- tramper,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- traveler,
- truant,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabondize,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wanderer,
- wandering,
- wastrel,
- wayfare,
- wayfarer,
- wayfaring,
- weary,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch