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vagrant

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va·grant  (vgrnt)
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.]

vagrant·ly adv.

vagrant [vaig-rant]
Noun
a person who moves from place to place and has no regular home or job
Adjective
wandering about [probably from Old French waucrant]
vagrancy n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.vagrantvagrant - a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
beachcomber - a vagrant living on a beach
have-not, poor person - a person with few or no possessions
sundowner - a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
hobo, tramp, bum - a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
bird of passage, roamer, rover, wanderer - someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
Adj.1.vagrantvagrant - continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
unsettled - not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"

vagrant
noun 1. tramp, bum (informal) drifter, vagabond, rolling stone, wanderer, beggar, derelict, itinerant, down-and-out, hobo U.S. bag lady chiefly U.S. dosser Brit. (slang) person of no fixed address, derro Austral. (slang)
Translations
vagrant [ˈveɪgrənt] nvagabundo/a

vagrant [ˈveɪgrənt] nvagabond(e)mendiant(e)

vagrant [ˈveɪgrənt] nLandstreicher(in) m(f);
(in town, city) → Stadtstreicher(in) m(f)

vagrant [ˈveɪgrənt] nvagabondo/a

vagrant
n vagrant [ˈveigrənt]
a person who has no fixed home; a tramp. boemelaar مُتَشَرِّد скитник tulák, -čka vagabond der/die Landstreicher(in) περιπλανώμενος, αλήτης vagabundo paadialune ولگرد kulkuri itinérant/-ante; vagabond/-onde נווד घुमक्कड़ skitnica csavargó gelandangan flækingur vagabondo, ambulante 浮浪者 부랑자, 떠돌이 valkata klaidonis; bezpajumtnieks kutu rayau gelandangan zwerver, landloper omstreifer, løsgjenger włóczęga vagabundo vagabond бродяга tulák, -čka potepuh skitnica landstrykare, lösdrivare, hemlös [] คนจรจัด serseri, avare 流浪者, 遊民 бродяга خانہ بدوش người lang thang 流浪者
n vagrancy
the state of being a vagrant Vagrancy is a crime in some countries. leeglê تَشَرُّد скитничество toulání, potulka vagabondering die Landstreicherei αλητεία vagabundería, vagabundeo hulkurlus ولگردی irtolaisuus vagabondage נַווָדוּת आवारागर्दी skitalaštvo csavargás keadaan bergelandangan flækingur, flækingslíf vagabondaggio, accattonaggio 放浪 방랑[] 생활 valkatavimas klaidonība hidup bergelandangan landloperij omflakking, løsgjengeri włóczęgostwo vadiagem vaga­bondaj бродяжничество tuláctvo potepuštvo skitnja lösdriveri การระเหระร่อน serserilik, avarelik 流浪,漂泊 блукання; кочове життя خانہ بدوشي، بے کارگي lối sống lang thang


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Passepartout had been a sort of vagrant in his early years, and now yearned for repose; but so far he had failed to find it, though he had already served in ten English houses.
One told how he had taken a life, another had taken two, a third had set a house on fire, while another had simply been a vagrant and had done nothing.
However--to be exact--there is one place where the serenity lapses for a while; this is while one is crossing the Schnurrtobel Bridge, a frail structure which swings its gossamer frame down through the dizzy air, over a gorge, like a vagrant spider-strand.
 
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