Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who moves from place to place without a permanent home and often without a regular means of support.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagabond.
- intransitive verb To wander or travel about, especially as a vagabond.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wander about in an idle manner; play the vagabond: sometimes with an indefinite it.
- Wandering; moving from place to place without any settled habitation; nomadic.
- Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
- Of or pertaining to a vagabond or worthless stroller; vagrant.
- Not sedentary, as a spider; belonging to the Vagabundæ.
- noun One who is without a settled home; one who goes from place to place; a wanderer; a vagrant: not necessarily in a bad sense.
- noun An idle, worthless stroller from place to place without, fixed habitation or visible means of earning an honest livelihood; in law, an idle, worthless vagrant. See
vagrant . - noun An idle, worthless fellow; a scamp; a rascal.
- noun One of the Vagabundæ.
- noun A pyralid moth, Crambus vulgivagellus. See cut under
Crambidæ .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
- adjective Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
- adjective Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
- noun One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
- intransitive verb To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
- noun A
bum , ahobo , atramp , ahomeless person, arogue , ane'er-do-well . - verb To
roam , as a vagabond
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- adjective continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- noun a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- adjective wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
- noun anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The life of the vagabond is an existence on the fringes of society.
Harry Martinson: Catching the Dewdrop, Reflecting the Cosmos 2004
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My main point was that I am glad this vagabond is no longer allowed to molest, rape, and murder our kids fragile little eyes and ears.
Dark Knight Pirater Sentenced To Two Years In Jail | /Film 2010
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His white-faced character, Bip, based on the 19th-century French Pierrot, a melancholy vagabond, is famous from his appearances on stage and television throughout the world.
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But its probably true my wife would have traveled more if shed married someone else, and my unwillingness to become the vagabond is just one of the ways Ive been, as I said, an unexciting if loyal and unwavering companion.
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For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond" -- the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in' 94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly-valued and not much respected profession.
Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909
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For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond" -- the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in' 94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly-valued and not much respected profession.
Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond" -- the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in' 94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly valued and not much respected profession.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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My entire life could be characterized as a vagabond existence.
Homelessness, Creativity, and Recovery from Bipolar (2005)...with a Postscript... 2009
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A vagabond is a kite lantern nightingale tramp scholar 44 45
Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8 Lewis M. Terman
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He abuseth thee finely, saith thou art a debauched vagabond, which is an insult to me thy serving companion, whom he threatened with the stocks.
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
bilby commented on the word vagabond
Like this, maybe.
April 19, 2008
plethora commented on the word vagabond
Aw yeah, gimme some of them vagrant fashion tips.
April 20, 2008
bilby commented on the word vagabond
Thanks WeirdNET.
April 20, 2008
bilby commented on the word vagabond
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
- Bliss Carman, 'A Vagabond Song'.
November 3, 2008
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word vagabond
Isn't there a reference to this in 'Can You Fell the Love Tonight'? It sounds a lot like they say 'vegabond' though, so I'm not sure.
July 28, 2009