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no·mad  (nmd)
n.
1. A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
2. A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.

[French nomade, from Latin nomas, nomad-, from Greek nomas, wandering in search of pasture; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

no·madic adj.
no·madi·cal·ly adv.
nomadism n.

nomadic [nəʊˈmædɪk]
adj
relating to or characteristic of nomads or their way of life
nomadically  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.nomadic - migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
unsettled - not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"

nomadic
adjective wandering, travelling, roaming, migrant, roving, itinerant, migratory, vagrant, peripatetic the nomadic tribes of the Western Sahara
Translations
nomadic [nəʊˈmædɪk] ADJnómada
nomadic [nəʊˈmædɪk] adjnomade
no-man's land [ˈnəʊmænzlænd] n
(in battle)no man's land m
(= wasteland) → terrain m vague
(= indefinite area) → zone f mal définie
nomadic
adjnomadisch, Nomaden-; nomadic tribeNomadenstamm m; nomadic lifestyleNomadenleben nt
nomadic [nəʊˈmædɪk] adjnomade


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