va·grant

(vā′grənt)

a. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.

b. Archaic A wanderer; a rover.

2. One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance.

3. An animal occurring beyond its normal range; an accidental.

adj.

1. Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support.

2. Living on the streets or constituting a public nuisance.

3. Inconstant or capricious; wayward: "She was resolved to win my vagrant fancy" (Frank Harris).

4. Moving in a random fashion; having no fixed direction or pattern: vagrant ice floes; a vagrant aroma.

5. Being beyond its normal range; accidental. Used of animals.

[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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vagrant

(ˈveɪɡrənt)

1. a person of no settled abode, income, or job; tramp

2. (Zoology) a migratory animal that is off course

adj

3. wandering about; nomadic

4. of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant or vagabond

5. moving in an erratic fashion, without aim or purpose; wayward

6. (Botany) (of plants) showing uncontrolled or straggling growth

Archaic equivalent: vagrom

[C15: probably from Old French waucrant (from wancrer to roam, of Germanic origin), but also influenced by Old French vagant vagabond, from Latin vagārī to wander]

ˈvagrantly adv

ˈvagrantness n

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va•grant

(ˈveɪ grənt)

n.

1. a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond.

2. Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.

3. a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.

adj.

4. wandering or roaming from place to place.

5. of or characteristic of a vagrant.

6. wandering idly without a permanent home or employment: vagrant beggars.

7. (of plants) straggling in growth.

8. not fixed or settled, esp. in course: a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.

[1400–50; late Middle English vagaraunt, appar. present participle of Anglo-French *vagrer, perhaps < Middle English *vagren, b. vagen (< Latin vagārī to wander) and *walcren (> Old French wa(u)crer), frequentative derivative of walk]

va′grant•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	vagrant - a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support drifter, vagabond, floater 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.	vagrant - continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" drifting, floating, vagabond, aimless 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 He lived on the street as a vagrant.

adjective

1. vagabond, drifting, wandering, homeless, journeying, unsettled, roaming, idle, roving, nomadic, destitute, itinerant, down and out, rootless, footloose, fly-by-night (informal), shiftless the terrifying sub-culture of vagrant alcoholics
vagabond settled, fixed, rooted, established

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vagrant

adjective

Leading the life of a person without a fixed domicile; moving from place to place:

itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, vagabond.

Translations

مُتَشَرِّد

-čkatulák

vagabond

Landstreicher Landstreicherin

itinérant

flækingur

vagabondaggio vagabondo

valkatavimas

bezpajumtnieksklaidonis

avare serseri

流浪者游民

vagrant

[ˈveɪgrənt]

A. N → vagabundo/a m/f

B. ADJ → vagabundo, vagante (fig) → errante

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vagrant

[ˈveɪgrənt] n → vagabond(e) m/f

vagrant

n → Landstreicher(in) m(f); (in town) → Stadtstreicher(in) m(f)

adj person → umherziehend; life → unstet, nomadenhaft

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vagrant

[ˈveɪgr/ənt] n → vagabondo/a, barbone/a

vagrant

(ˈveigrənt) noun

a person who has no fixed home; a tramp.

ˈvagrancy noun

the state of being a vagrant. Vagrancy is a crime in some countries.

vagrant

a. errante; suelto-a; libre.