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Definition of vagabond in English: vagabondnoun ˈvaɡəbɒndˈvæɡəˌbɑnd 1A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. Example sentencesExamples - I am a dogged traveler, the determined vagabond.
- He had found her, a run away vagabond, on the side of the road.
- The carnie is no longer a punchline for a joke but a vanishing breed of vagabond that triggers wanderlust nostalgia, not thoughts of syphilis and criminal misdeeds.
- He writes about artisans, peasants, the rural poor, vagabonds, and beggars.
- Those who died on the Marina beach included fishermen, vagabonds, rag-pickers etc. who either had no home to go to or were out doing their bit to earn enough for one proper meal a day.
- Vagabond Tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the world and through time to bring different kinds of music back to the traveling minstrels of Barrage.
- A decree of Napoleon in 1808 sent vagabonds to prison and beggars to dépôts de mendicité where they were subjected to forced labour.
- Three categories of poor were subsequently recognized: sturdy beggars or vagabonds, regarded as potential trouble-makers, the infirm, and the deserving unemployed.
- I worked at a racetrack, picked fruit, traveled about as a vagabond.
- A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone.
- He is, says his biographer, ‘an old-fashioned theatrical vagabond, travelling light’.
- Beggars, vagabonds, prostitutes, and criminals occupied the bottom of this social order, and might have made up as much as 10 to 20 per cent of the urban population.
- Elizabethan England faced a mounting economic problem as the poor became poorer, and a growing army of vagabonds and beggars roamed the streets and countryside.
- He then became a vagabond, initially sleeping on the streets or wherever he could find shelter.
- I was walking to my campus, it was in 1985, when I saw the body of a vagabond not far from the campus entrance gate.
- Judging by the clothing quality, the individual looked like a vagabond.
- Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
- We're just vagabonds, traveling from one place to another.
- Every European country legislated against vagrancy, often insisting that vagabonds should be returned to their parish of origin, and if necessary whipped or branded to deter them from trying again.
- Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars.
Synonyms itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, tramp, vagrant, drifter, transient, migrant, homeless person, derelict, beachcomber, down-and-out, beggar, person of no fixed address/abode, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone North American hobo Australian bagman, knockabout, overlander, sundowner, whaler informal bag lady North American informal bum, bindlestiff South African informal outie Australian/New Zealand informal derro - 1.1dated, informal A dishonest or unprincipled person.
Example sentencesExamples - I don't attract a clientele of vagabonds and rogues and scurrilous types with evil motives.
- According children V.I.P treatment only helps to groom rogues and vagabonds in the long term.
- Her husband was a drunken vagabond, a parasite who suspected her every move.
- Bind him fast or by Zeus, I shall see you rotting in gaol alongside this upstart vagabond!
- We can't afford first time grants for houses, but we can afford €60m to buy an ego boosting plane for the vagabonds who squandered the boom years.
- The husband arranges her marriage with a person who is considered a vagabond.
- It would be most unusual if there were not rogues and vagabonds in the industry.
- Considering her taste in men she'll probably run off with another backwater vagabond, who's been partially tamed by the military.
- His father, Leon Smet, was a Belgian with both French and Flemish in him - a good-looking vagabond, himself fatherless, who performed in cabarets and theatres, starting up groups and disbanding them, and dropping wives as easily.
- She got married one lunchtime and didn't tell her parents until she was four months pregnant, because my father was an actor, and actors then were kind of vagabonds, you know.
Synonyms scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, brute, animal, weasel, snake, monster, ogre, wretch, devil, good-for-nothing, reprobate, wrongdoer, evil-doer
adjective ˈvaɡəbɒndˈvæɡəˌbɑnd attributive Having no settled home. Example sentencesExamples - A vagabond black crow which was found wandering in Kimberley Road a few days ago, is now lodging at the Queen's Park Zoo until someone claims him - for he appears to be a pet.
- The extent of his acting ability is further shown in his portrayal of his own vagabond jazz trombonist father.
- Block out the sight of vagabond children hawking tat at traffic intersections.
- Born in Texas, and named by an Indian mystic, Devendra is a vagabond artist in the purest sense of the word.
- I suppose if I were a journalist with some newspaper's or magazine's code of ethics, instead of being a vagabond poet, I might have to be careful about accepting even pens and calendar.
- The Inn was full of vagabond sailors and people who worked about Cabana Bay.
- He could not survive on his own, a vagabond dog on the run.
- I was a vagabond disk jockey on small stations with little income at age 30.
- One advantage the vagabond angler has is the knowledge gained by casting over different venues.
- I can't quit my job and become a vagabond anti-imperial rebel at this stage of my life.
- Well these visions unfold in front of me like a play put on by a traveling band of vagabond gypsies.
- The House of Commons first came into prominence as an instrument of the tyrant Henry VIII, to rob the Church and the poor, creating a vagabond underclass and a crime wave that lasted for centuries.
- A vagabond performer, he was born with severe abnormalities, including two lumps on either side of his forehead (which look suspiciously like budding horns) and malformed feet.
- Niche travel, which is the category we vagabond surfers fall under, is available online too.
- And he was there, the vagabond journeyman sorcerer that had seized what must have seemed a reasonable opportunity at the time.
Synonyms itinerant, wandering, nomadic, travelling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, roving, roaming, vagrant, transient, floating, migrant, migrating, migratory refugee, displaced, homeless, rootless drifting, unsettled, footloose of no fixed address/abode archaic errant
verb ˈvaɡəbɒndˈvæɡəˌbɑnd [no object]archaic Wander about as or like a vagabond. he went vagabonding about the world Example sentencesExamples - He vagabonded his way to Paris and immediately settled into a bohemian life.
- At home most of the time, I would bundle my baby in his stroller and go vagabonding as and when the weather would allow.
- The most savvy travellers I know log onto Thorn Tree as they vagabond.
- Perhaps not coincidentally, Amelia's vagabonding seems to have run across a few stops of the National Air Races which were underway at the same time.
- I think she was happy vagabonding with the couple.
Synonyms wander, roam, rove, range, travel, travel idly, journey, voyage, globetrot, drift, coast, meander, gad about, gallivant, jaunt, take a trip, go on a trip
Origin Middle English (originally denoting a criminal): from Old French, or from Latin vagabundus, from vagari 'wander'. vague from mid 16th century: A number of English words descend from Latin vagari ‘to wander’ and vagus ‘wandering’. In the 16th century vague applied the idea of a ‘wandering’ mind to someone who cannot think or communicate clearly. A vagabond (Middle English) was originally just a vagrant (Late Middle English), someone who roams from place to place without a settled home, until it acquired the additional suggestion of ‘an unprincipled or dishonest man’. Before it came to refer to impulsive changes or whims, as in ‘the vagaries of fashion’, vagary (late 16th century) was used to mean ‘to wander’.
Definition of vagabond in US English: vagabondnounˈvaɡəˌbändˈvæɡəˌbɑnd 1A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. Example sentencesExamples - The carnie is no longer a punchline for a joke but a vanishing breed of vagabond that triggers wanderlust nostalgia, not thoughts of syphilis and criminal misdeeds.
- We're just vagabonds, traveling from one place to another.
- He writes about artisans, peasants, the rural poor, vagabonds, and beggars.
- A decree of Napoleon in 1808 sent vagabonds to prison and beggars to dépôts de mendicité where they were subjected to forced labour.
- I am a dogged traveler, the determined vagabond.
- He is, says his biographer, ‘an old-fashioned theatrical vagabond, travelling light’.
- Beggars, vagabonds, prostitutes, and criminals occupied the bottom of this social order, and might have made up as much as 10 to 20 per cent of the urban population.
- Judging by the clothing quality, the individual looked like a vagabond.
- Every European country legislated against vagrancy, often insisting that vagabonds should be returned to their parish of origin, and if necessary whipped or branded to deter them from trying again.
- A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone.
- Elizabethan England faced a mounting economic problem as the poor became poorer, and a growing army of vagabonds and beggars roamed the streets and countryside.
- He then became a vagabond, initially sleeping on the streets or wherever he could find shelter.
- Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars.
- Three categories of poor were subsequently recognized: sturdy beggars or vagabonds, regarded as potential trouble-makers, the infirm, and the deserving unemployed.
- I worked at a racetrack, picked fruit, traveled about as a vagabond.
- Vagabond Tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the world and through time to bring different kinds of music back to the traveling minstrels of Barrage.
- Those who died on the Marina beach included fishermen, vagabonds, rag-pickers etc. who either had no home to go to or were out doing their bit to earn enough for one proper meal a day.
- Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
- He had found her, a run away vagabond, on the side of the road.
- I was walking to my campus, it was in 1985, when I saw the body of a vagabond not far from the campus entrance gate.
Synonyms itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, tramp, vagrant, drifter, transient, migrant, homeless person, derelict, beachcomber, down-and-out, beggar, person of no fixed abode, person of no fixed address, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone - 1.1dated, informal A rascal; a rogue.
Example sentencesExamples - I don't attract a clientele of vagabonds and rogues and scurrilous types with evil motives.
- We can't afford first time grants for houses, but we can afford €60m to buy an ego boosting plane for the vagabonds who squandered the boom years.
- It would be most unusual if there were not rogues and vagabonds in the industry.
- His father, Leon Smet, was a Belgian with both French and Flemish in him - a good-looking vagabond, himself fatherless, who performed in cabarets and theatres, starting up groups and disbanding them, and dropping wives as easily.
- According children V.I.P treatment only helps to groom rogues and vagabonds in the long term.
- Considering her taste in men she'll probably run off with another backwater vagabond, who's been partially tamed by the military.
- Her husband was a drunken vagabond, a parasite who suspected her every move.
- The husband arranges her marriage with a person who is considered a vagabond.
- She got married one lunchtime and didn't tell her parents until she was four months pregnant, because my father was an actor, and actors then were kind of vagabonds, you know.
- Bind him fast or by Zeus, I shall see you rotting in gaol alongside this upstart vagabond!
Synonyms scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, brute, animal, weasel, snake, monster, ogre, wretch, devil, good-for-nothing, reprobate, wrongdoer, evil-doer
adjectiveˈvaɡəˌbändˈvæɡəˌbɑnd attributive Having no settled home. Example sentencesExamples - I suppose if I were a journalist with some newspaper's or magazine's code of ethics, instead of being a vagabond poet, I might have to be careful about accepting even pens and calendar.
- And he was there, the vagabond journeyman sorcerer that had seized what must have seemed a reasonable opportunity at the time.
- A vagabond black crow which was found wandering in Kimberley Road a few days ago, is now lodging at the Queen's Park Zoo until someone claims him - for he appears to be a pet.
- Well these visions unfold in front of me like a play put on by a traveling band of vagabond gypsies.
- Block out the sight of vagabond children hawking tat at traffic intersections.
- The Inn was full of vagabond sailors and people who worked about Cabana Bay.
- One advantage the vagabond angler has is the knowledge gained by casting over different venues.
- I can't quit my job and become a vagabond anti-imperial rebel at this stage of my life.
- Niche travel, which is the category we vagabond surfers fall under, is available online too.
- He could not survive on his own, a vagabond dog on the run.
- Born in Texas, and named by an Indian mystic, Devendra is a vagabond artist in the purest sense of the word.
- The extent of his acting ability is further shown in his portrayal of his own vagabond jazz trombonist father.
- I was a vagabond disk jockey on small stations with little income at age 30.
- The House of Commons first came into prominence as an instrument of the tyrant Henry VIII, to rob the Church and the poor, creating a vagabond underclass and a crime wave that lasted for centuries.
- A vagabond performer, he was born with severe abnormalities, including two lumps on either side of his forehead (which look suspiciously like budding horns) and malformed feet.
Synonyms itinerant, wandering, nomadic, travelling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, roving, roaming, vagrant, transient, floating, migrant, migrating, migratory
verbˈvaɡəˌbändˈvæɡəˌbɑnd [no object]archaic Wander about as or like a vagabond. he went vagabonding about the world Example sentencesExamples - I think she was happy vagabonding with the couple.
- He vagabonded his way to Paris and immediately settled into a bohemian life.
- The most savvy travellers I know log onto Thorn Tree as they vagabond.
- At home most of the time, I would bundle my baby in his stroller and go vagabonding as and when the weather would allow.
- Perhaps not coincidentally, Amelia's vagabonding seems to have run across a few stops of the National Air Races which were underway at the same time.
Synonyms wander, roam, rove, range, travel, travel idly, journey, voyage, globetrot, drift, coast, meander, gad about, gallivant, jaunt, take a trip, go on a trip
Origin Middle English (originally denoting a criminal): from Old French, or from Latin vagabundus, from vagari ‘wander’. |