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Definition of vagabond :
1. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
3. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
4. 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.
5. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
Synonyms:
lay out, drop, plod, straggling, mould, avow, honk, betray, chuck, spew, pad, tramping, cat, place, cheat on, cast, hurl, floating policy, regurgitate, barf, shifting, roll out, disgorge, peripatetic, migrant, put, assert, directionless, hustle, cuckold, range, move, muscae volitantes, order, be adrift, spue, rank, upchuck, straddle, wave, contrive, trudge, swear, be sick, rootless, frame, flap, err, vomit up, float, couch, browse, set out, drift, slog, afloat, retch, seethe, floater, rudderless, stray, throw up, sick, throw off, graze, weave, musca volitans, itinerant, ramble on, aver, meander, spots, throw, adrift, roll up, shake off, grade, undulate, tramp, blow, wrap, turn over, rove, pasture, migratory, wander, cast off, revolve, hurtle, floating, moving, rambling, pluck, redact, vomit, planless, errant, wind, footslog, shed, affirm, jog, aimless, ramble, cheat, run, twine, roll, rate, undirected, crop, thread, wandering, array, draw, wheel, swan, project, unsettled, purge, divagate, regorge, puke, digress, roam, freewheel, mold, verify, throw away
traveler (part of speech: noun)
rover, voyager, drifter, tourist, transient, nomad, wayfarer, passenger, vagrant, traveler, trekker, journeyer
traveling (part of speech: adjective)
traveling, roaming, trekking, wayfaring, nomadic, roving, journeying, drifting
Usage examples:
- There is always, however, a kind of vagabond consolation in a man's having nothing in this world to lose; with this Dolph comforted his heart, and determined to make the most of the present enjoyment. - "Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists", Washington Irving.
- I shrewdly suspect this was arranged in the hope of attracting our " Beloved Vagabond," Larry, back and forth across the sea. - "The Lightning Conductor Discovers America", C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson.
- A great increase of the vagabond population was the direct and immediate consequence. - "Colloquies on Society", Robert Southey.