Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
nomad .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
nomad , n.
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- noun Archaic form of
nomad .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many years after we find him living in a remote district beyond the great Orange River, leading the life of a "trek-boer," -- that is, a nomade farmer, who has no fixed or permanent abode, but moves with his flocks from place to place, wherever good pastures and water may tempt him.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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Many years after we find him living in a remote district beyond the great Orange River, leading the life of a "trek-boor," -- that is, a nomade farmer, who has no fixed or permanent abode, but moves with his flocks from place to place, wherever good pastures and water may tempt him.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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Cortanze, Gérard de, J.M.G. Le Clézio: le nomade immobile.
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Cortanze, Gérard de, J.M.G. Le Clézio: le nomade immobile.
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These Indians retain few of their ancient characteristics, except their dark complexions and their comfortless nomade way of living.
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Living constantly in public, without opportunity for holding family intercourse, and being without either home cares or home pleasures, nomade, restless, pleasure-seeking habits are induced, which have led strangers to charge the Americans with being destitute of home life.
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About 200 families of Greek Christians, of whom one third have entirely embraced the nomade life, live here distinguished only from their Arab brethren by the sign of the cross.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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India and Al-Yaman, Banca tin, hides supplied by the nomade
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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They have done this without the aid of the aboriginal tribes, who have proved irreclaimably addicted to their nomade habits.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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-- The last Indian mails brought me the following derivation of the word _Nomade_, in a letter from a friend, who was, when he wrote, leading a nomade life among the Ryots of Guzerat: --
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