vagabond

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund.

• (UK) enPR: văg'ə-bŏnd, IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/

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• (Canada, General American) enPR: văg'ə-band, IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
2. One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.

   Synonyms: vagrant, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:12:

     When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:

     Anoleis: You will excuse me if I don't stand up.
     Anoleis: I have no time to entertain spaceborn vagabonds.

• extravagant
• vague

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

1. To roam, as a vagabond

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.

   • 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover:

     Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.

Borrowed from Late Latin vagābundus.

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃/

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vagabond (feminine vagabonde, masculine plural vagabonds, feminine plural vagabondes)

1. vagabonding

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

1. vagabond

• “vagabond”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• vagabund

• IPA^(key): /vaɡaˈbuŋd/

vagabond m (plural vagabond)

1. vagabond

• vagabondé

Borrowed from French vagabond.

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡaˈbond/

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

1. tramp (a homeless person)

vagabond c

1. vagabond

   Synonym: lösdrivare