Gypsy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The Romani language.
• noun A member of any of various traditionally itinerant groups unrelated to the Romani.
• noun One who follows an itinerant or otherwise unconventional career or way of life, especially.
• noun A part-time or temporary member of a college faculty.
• noun A member of the chorus line in a theater production.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun etc. See Gipsy, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
• adjective a woman's or child's broad-brimmed hat, usually of straw or felt.
• adjective a small winch, which may be operated by a crank, or by a ratchet and pawl through a lever working up and down.
• noun One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in the 14th or 15th century, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. bohemian, Romany.
• noun The language used by the gypsies.
• noun A dark-complexioned person.
• noun colloq. A cunning or crafty person.
• intransitive verb To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A member of the Romani people, or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
• noun A member of other nomadic peoples, not only of the Romani people; a traveller. Alternative spelling of gypsy.
• proper noun rare The language Romani.
• adjective Of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
• noun the Indic language of the Gypsies
• noun a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)