Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nomad \Nom"ad\, n. [L. nomas, -adis, Gr. ?, ?, pasturing,
roaming without fixed home, fr. ? a pasture, allotted abode,
fr. ? to distribute, allot, drive to pasture; prob. akin to
AS. niman to take, and E. nimble: cf. F. nomade. Cf.
Astronomy, Economy, Nimble, Nemesis, Numb,
Number.]
One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but
wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nomad \Nom"ad\, a.
Roving; nomadic.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nomad
n 1: a member of a people who have no permanent home but move
about according to the seasons
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "nomad":
Arab, Bedouin, Bohemian, Romany, Zigeuner, circumforaneous,
discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant, flitting, floating,
footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy,
gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrational,
migratory, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting,
straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory,
transmigratory, tzigane, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, zingaro
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
NOMAD
A database language.
Version: NOMAD2 from Must Software International.
["NOMAD Reference Manual", Form 1004, National CSS Inc, Dec
1976].
(1995-04-01)