va·grant (v  gr nt)n. 1. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood. 2. A wanderer; a rover. 3. One who lives on the streets and constitutes a public nuisance. adj. 1. Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support. 2. Wayward; unrestrained: a vagrant impulse. 3. Moving in a random fashion; not fixed in place: "Thanks to a vagrant current of the Gulf Stream, a stretch of the Kola coast is free of ice year round" (Jack Beatty). [Middle English vagraunt, probably alteration of Old French wacrant, present participle of wacrer, to wander, of Germanic origin.] va grant·ly adv. |
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