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Definition of vagrant in English: vagrantnoun ˈveɪɡr(ə)ntˈveɪɡrənt 1A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging. Example sentencesExamples - In addition to a person to lock the gates, a night watchman has been employed to keep the vagrants from climbing over the fence at night and sleeping on the stalls where food is sold during the day.
- There is no doubt that Port-of-Spain could do with cleaning up; but dealing with the perennial, thorny issue of vagrants is a far larger matter than merely one aspect of beautifying the capital.
- Council chiefs in Doncaster are planning to ‘design out crime’ by sealing off alleyways between houses which have become a haven for criminals, vandals and vagrants.
- These once-a-year events, where the city's vagrants would move from the warm soup factories in the north to their usual habitat of the Strongbow breweries in the city's south, were the scourge of the middle classes.
- The advocates' favorite justification for keeping vagrants on the street in plain view was that the shelters were ‘dangerous.’
- In addition to existing handouts, vagrants can choose from a list of new options of receiving free dental care, employment assistance, and substance abuse counseling.
- When Atlas Bakery permanently turned off the ovens and left the building it became, over the past five years, a favourite spot for vagrants, pigeons and party organisers.
- The brilliant camera work sympathetically follows him from street corners where he shares a dazed smoke with a couple of wrinkled vagrants to a silent pond where his exhausted mind conjures up startling hallucinations.
- The civic space in the middle of the complex, which is utilised mainly by vagrants and is largely untouched by the current redevelopment proposal, would be both ideal and ample for such purpose.
- I wandered down dirty streets, past vacant looking vagrants, and across a railway line. All was dark and dusty.
- We did hear reports it had been occupied by vagrants, but no definite report of anyone being inside.
- Residents said since the murder was discovered, police paramilitaries had been conducting an aggressive campaign to check identities in a search for vagrants, who are the prime suspects.
- The number of vagrants also seems to be increasing.
- The despair and hopelessness of these unfortunate individuals whom we term vagrants are always in full view, right before our eyes, a constant reminder that our values are not what they should be.
- When Stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the Bowery in Chinatown, photographing vagrants.
- Mayors have no moral grounds to complain about good Samaritans who feed vagrants when all else that's available to the homeless are sterile, unattractive environments.
- Under the plans, instead of money being given to vagrants, well-meaning shoppers can put it in yellow collection boxes dotted around the major stores in Swindon.
- Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city.
- There is growing concern among community leaders that drunks and vagrants are causing problems in public places, and volunteers are now carrying out sweeps of the shopping area to weed out troublemakers.
- Identifying a clear-cut programme, the National Women's Action Committee announced a campaign to rid the streets of vagrants.
Synonyms tramp, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar, itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, vagabond, transient, migrant, homeless person, beachcomber, person of no fixed address/abode, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone North American hobo Australian bagman, knockabout, overlander, sundowner, whaler New Zealand streety informal bag lady North American informal bum, bindlestiff South African informal outie Australian/New Zealand informal derro - 1.1archaic A wanderer.
Example sentencesExamples - Of the Mayflower colonists at Plymouth there were only 35 members of an identifiable Puritan congregation, with 67 other migrants ranging from entrepreneurs to vagrants.
- Though he be a vagrant and wanderer, he knows that which must be done to heal this place.
- It's one of those movies that celebrates vagrants at the expense of people who are settled down in life, but then expects us to be happy when the main vagrants in the story all decide to settle down at the end.
- 1.2Ornithology A bird that has strayed or been blown from its usual range or migratory route.
most birders are hoping to find the wind-blown vagrants of migration Also called accidental Example sentencesExamples - Although most of the birds sighted are to be expected in an ordinary spring, each year there is sure to be at least one outstanding vagrant.
- Yellow-billed Cuckoos are officially considered extirpated in Washington, and the occasional sightings are vagrants.
- This bird may have been a visitor from Victoria, or a vagrant from the population in eastern Asia.
- Snowy Plovers are rare vagrants to eastern Washington in April and May.
- The nesting population in North America may not be self-sustaining, and is supplemented by an influx of European vagrants.
adjective ˈveɪɡr(ə)ntˈveɪɡrənt 1attributive Relating to or living the life of a vagrant. Example sentencesExamples - A recent law that bars police from rousting homeless people from the city has expanded the vagrant population in a city unused to street people.
- Each sibling feels the need to break away - Emma to follow her new dream of being an archaeologist, Blue to track down his elusive and by now vagrant father, whom he finds squatting in an abandoned warehouse.
- She has a group of friends, all vagrant children eking out a living doing odd jobs, from boot polishing to selling flowers to rag-picking.
- We know you ran away with those vagrant teenagers.
- Police say he got the boys from the South Pattaya pier area where there are a lot of vagrant children.
- I asked him what he, as a sharp lad, thought was the cause of so many boys becoming vagrant pickpockets?
- There was a vagrant family living there and when I asked them what this place was, they said it was a Jewish school for children.
- The 1856 County and Borough Act was motivated partly by dread of vagrant criminality associated with the end of the Crimean War and the prospect of a footloose army of unemployed returning soldiers.
- I am now no better than your pregnant vagrant friend in the eyes of the government, and I expect I will be treated with exactly the same lack of sympathy.
- Along with San Francisco paying their vagrants and Chicago now planning on building homes along with paying them, the vagrant lifestyle is becoming more and more attractive.
- The child vagrant population is growing and is a virtual time bomb waiting to explode.
- John Pounds’ work with vagrant children led to the Ragged School movement and began the concept of a universal education for all.
- It houses, clothes, and feeds orphans, abandoned children, and vagrant children from dysfunctional families, ranging from 5-17 years of age.
- The civic authorities plead helplessness in feeding the vagrant population and point out that a proposal to rehabilitate them in the suburbs is hanging fire.
- Would the advocates back off if police brought vagrant lawbreakers to shelters instead of arresting them?
- Nineteenth-century legislation very often targeted the social control of abandoned or orphaned children, since unruly vagrant youths were seen as potentially dangerous to society.
- In Elizabethan England the poor laws were enacted to control vagrant men who were seen as subversive.
Synonyms homeless, drifting, transient, roving, roaming, floating, unsettled, footloose, itinerant, wandering, nomadic, travelling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, rambling, touring, vagabond, migrant, migrating, migratory, rootless - 1.1 Moving from place to place; wandering.
Example sentencesExamples - I must go down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
- But in Folkestone, the sun glinted off the sea and vagrant scavenging gulls wheeled around.
- Even the Hudson seems crystalline, vagrant chunks of ice drifting spectrally out to sea.
- We hear of these wild, vagrant saints, rather along the lines of John the Baptist.
- I have to find my vagrant husband for the next dance, and I expect to see you two out there, too.
Synonyms homeless, drifting, transient, roving, roaming, floating, unsettled, footloose, itinerant, wandering, nomadic, travelling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, rambling, touring, vagabond, migrant, migrating, migratory, rootless - 1.2literary Moving or behaving unpredictably; inconstant.
the vagrant heart of my mother Example sentencesExamples - The moon glows like a phosphrous on the vagrant waters.
- Instead, it reaches the reader ‘through a vagrant sympathy and a kind of immediate contact’.
- One vagrant breath of wind can ruin an entire weekend.
- A vagrant breath of hot air fluttered the ends of his black silk tie.
- A son's love is a vagrant thing and may be given and refused without reason.
Derivatives adverb Diffused surface water flowing vagrantly over the surface of the ground is not considered to be public water. Example sentencesExamples - If all of these people are simply reading, why aren't they vagrantly loitering at a library?
- No person shall vagrantly loiter, lounge or sleep in or on the streets.
- But Baby Warren wanted to talk to Dick, wanted to talk to him with the impetus that sent her out vagrantly toward all new men, as though she were on an inelastic tether and considered that she might as well get to the end of it as soon as possible.
- Anyone who has ever been exposed to my pathetic scribblings quickly deduces that one of my principal flaws - among many others - is an irresistible impulse to jot down every idea that ever vagrantly floated across my imagination.
Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vagarant 'wandering about', from the verb vagrer. Definition of vagrant in US English: vagrantnounˈvāɡrəntˈveɪɡrənt 1A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging. Example sentencesExamples - Council chiefs in Doncaster are planning to ‘design out crime’ by sealing off alleyways between houses which have become a haven for criminals, vandals and vagrants.
- The civic space in the middle of the complex, which is utilised mainly by vagrants and is largely untouched by the current redevelopment proposal, would be both ideal and ample for such purpose.
- These once-a-year events, where the city's vagrants would move from the warm soup factories in the north to their usual habitat of the Strongbow breweries in the city's south, were the scourge of the middle classes.
- The brilliant camera work sympathetically follows him from street corners where he shares a dazed smoke with a couple of wrinkled vagrants to a silent pond where his exhausted mind conjures up startling hallucinations.
- Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city.
- The number of vagrants also seems to be increasing.
- When Atlas Bakery permanently turned off the ovens and left the building it became, over the past five years, a favourite spot for vagrants, pigeons and party organisers.
- We did hear reports it had been occupied by vagrants, but no definite report of anyone being inside.
- Identifying a clear-cut programme, the National Women's Action Committee announced a campaign to rid the streets of vagrants.
- When Stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the Bowery in Chinatown, photographing vagrants.
- I wandered down dirty streets, past vacant looking vagrants, and across a railway line. All was dark and dusty.
- The advocates' favorite justification for keeping vagrants on the street in plain view was that the shelters were ‘dangerous.’
- Residents said since the murder was discovered, police paramilitaries had been conducting an aggressive campaign to check identities in a search for vagrants, who are the prime suspects.
- The despair and hopelessness of these unfortunate individuals whom we term vagrants are always in full view, right before our eyes, a constant reminder that our values are not what they should be.
- There is growing concern among community leaders that drunks and vagrants are causing problems in public places, and volunteers are now carrying out sweeps of the shopping area to weed out troublemakers.
- There is no doubt that Port-of-Spain could do with cleaning up; but dealing with the perennial, thorny issue of vagrants is a far larger matter than merely one aspect of beautifying the capital.
- Under the plans, instead of money being given to vagrants, well-meaning shoppers can put it in yellow collection boxes dotted around the major stores in Swindon.
- In addition to a person to lock the gates, a night watchman has been employed to keep the vagrants from climbing over the fence at night and sleeping on the stalls where food is sold during the day.
- In addition to existing handouts, vagrants can choose from a list of new options of receiving free dental care, employment assistance, and substance abuse counseling.
- Mayors have no moral grounds to complain about good Samaritans who feed vagrants when all else that's available to the homeless are sterile, unattractive environments.
Synonyms tramp, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar, itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, vagabond, transient, migrant, homeless person, beachcomber, person of no fixed abode, person of no fixed address, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone - 1.1archaic A wanderer.
Example sentencesExamples - Of the Mayflower colonists at Plymouth there were only 35 members of an identifiable Puritan congregation, with 67 other migrants ranging from entrepreneurs to vagrants.
- It's one of those movies that celebrates vagrants at the expense of people who are settled down in life, but then expects us to be happy when the main vagrants in the story all decide to settle down at the end.
- Though he be a vagrant and wanderer, he knows that which must be done to heal this place.
- 1.2Ornithology A bird that has strayed or been blown from its usual range or migratory route.
Also called accidental Example sentencesExamples - The nesting population in North America may not be self-sustaining, and is supplemented by an influx of European vagrants.
- This bird may have been a visitor from Victoria, or a vagrant from the population in eastern Asia.
- Although most of the birds sighted are to be expected in an ordinary spring, each year there is sure to be at least one outstanding vagrant.
- Yellow-billed Cuckoos are officially considered extirpated in Washington, and the occasional sightings are vagrants.
- Snowy Plovers are rare vagrants to eastern Washington in April and May.
adjectiveˈvāɡrəntˈveɪɡrənt 1attributive Characteristic relating to or living the life of a vagrant. Example sentencesExamples - She has a group of friends, all vagrant children eking out a living doing odd jobs, from boot polishing to selling flowers to rag-picking.
- I asked him what he, as a sharp lad, thought was the cause of so many boys becoming vagrant pickpockets?
- We know you ran away with those vagrant teenagers.
- I am now no better than your pregnant vagrant friend in the eyes of the government, and I expect I will be treated with exactly the same lack of sympathy.
- It houses, clothes, and feeds orphans, abandoned children, and vagrant children from dysfunctional families, ranging from 5-17 years of age.
- John Pounds’ work with vagrant children led to the Ragged School movement and began the concept of a universal education for all.
- Along with San Francisco paying their vagrants and Chicago now planning on building homes along with paying them, the vagrant lifestyle is becoming more and more attractive.
- Would the advocates back off if police brought vagrant lawbreakers to shelters instead of arresting them?
- There was a vagrant family living there and when I asked them what this place was, they said it was a Jewish school for children.
- Nineteenth-century legislation very often targeted the social control of abandoned or orphaned children, since unruly vagrant youths were seen as potentially dangerous to society.
- The child vagrant population is growing and is a virtual time bomb waiting to explode.
- A recent law that bars police from rousting homeless people from the city has expanded the vagrant population in a city unused to street people.
- Each sibling feels the need to break away - Emma to follow her new dream of being an archaeologist, Blue to track down his elusive and by now vagrant father, whom he finds squatting in an abandoned warehouse.
- In Elizabethan England the poor laws were enacted to control vagrant men who were seen as subversive.
- Police say he got the boys from the South Pattaya pier area where there are a lot of vagrant children.
- The civic authorities plead helplessness in feeding the vagrant population and point out that a proposal to rehabilitate them in the suburbs is hanging fire.
- The 1856 County and Borough Act was motivated partly by dread of vagrant criminality associated with the end of the Crimean War and the prospect of a footloose army of unemployed returning soldiers.
Synonyms homeless, drifting, transient, roving, roaming, floating, unsettled, footloose, itinerant, wandering, nomadic, travelling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, rambling, touring, vagabond, migrant, migrating, migratory, rootless - 1.1 Moving from place to place; wandering.
Example sentencesExamples - Even the Hudson seems crystalline, vagrant chunks of ice drifting spectrally out to sea.
- I must go down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
- We hear of these wild, vagrant saints, rather along the lines of John the Baptist.
- But in Folkestone, the sun glinted off the sea and vagrant scavenging gulls wheeled around.
- I have to find my vagrant husband for the next dance, and I expect to see you two out there, too.
Synonyms homeless, drifting, transient, roving, roaming, floating, unsettled, footloose, itinerant, wandering, nomadic, travelling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, rambling, touring, vagabond, migrant, migrating, migratory, rootless - 1.2literary Moving or occurring unpredictably; inconstant.
the vagrant heart of my mother Example sentencesExamples - A vagrant breath of hot air fluttered the ends of his black silk tie.
- The moon glows like a phosphrous on the vagrant waters.
- A son's love is a vagrant thing and may be given and refused without reason.
- One vagrant breath of wind can ruin an entire weekend.
- Instead, it reaches the reader ‘through a vagrant sympathy and a kind of immediate contact’.
Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vagarant ‘wandering about’, from the verb vagrer. |