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nomadic

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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.nomadicnomadic - 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"
mobile, peregrine, roving, wandering
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] ADJ → nómada
nomadic [nəʊˈmædɪk] adj → nomade
no-man's land [ˈnəʊmænzlænd] n
(in battle) → no man's land m
(= wasteland) → terrain m vague
(= indefinite area) → zone f mal définie
nomadic
adj → nomadisch, Nomaden-; nomadic tribe → Nomadenstamm m; nomadic lifestyle → Nomadenleben nt
nomadic [nəʊˈmædɪk] adj → nomade
nomadic [nəʊˈmædɪk] adj → nomade


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And it is well that nature has so graciously and abundantly lighted the Martian night, for the green men of Mars, being a nomadic race without high intellectual development, have but crude means for artificial lighting; depending principally upon torches, a kind of candle, and a peculiar oil lamp which generates a gas and burns without a wick.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
From the high, swaying seat of his hansom he looks upon his fellow-men as nomadic particles, of no account except when possessed of migratory desires.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
The various races had made war upon one another for ages, and the three higher types had easily bested the green savages of the water places of the world, but now that the receding seas necessitated constant abandonment of their fortified cities and forced upon them a more or less nomadic life in which they became separated into smaller communities they soon fell prey to the fierce hordes of green men.
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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