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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place;
- Example: "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"

2. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support;
[syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond]


VERB (1)

1. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
- Example: "The gypsies roamed the woods"
- Example: "roving vagabonds"
- Example: "the wandering Jew"
- Example: "The cattle roam across the prairie"
- Example: "the laborers drift from one town to the next"
- Example: "They rolled from town to town"
[syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community;
- Example: "led a vagabond life"
- Example: "a rootless wanderer"
[syn: rootless, vagabond]

2. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
- Example: "a drifting double-dealer"
- Example: "the floating population"
- Example: "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
[syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, v. i.
   To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
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         On every part my vagabonding sight
         Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight.
                                                  --Drummond.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, a. [F., fr. L. vagabundus, from vagari to
   stroll about, from vagus strolling. See Vague.]
   1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation;
      wandering. "Vagabond exile." --Shak.
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   2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to
      and fro.
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            To heaven their prayers
            Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds
            Blown vagabond or frustrate.          --Milton.
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   3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, n.
   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.
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         A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. --Gen. iv. 12.
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   Note: In English and American law, vagabond is used in bad
         sense, denoting one who is without a home; a strolling,
         idle, worthless person. Vagabonds are described in old
         English statutes as "such as wake on the night and
         sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and
         alehouses, and routs about; and no man wot from whence
         they came, nor whither they go." In American law, the
         term vagrant is employed in the same sense. Cf Rogue,
         n., 1. --Burrill. --Bouvier.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vagabond
    adj 1: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community;
           "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn:
           rootless, vagabond]
    2: continually changing especially as from one abode or
       occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the
       floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn:
       aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant]
    n 1: anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed
         place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"
    2: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means
       of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond]
    v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
         search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the
         woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The
         cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from
         one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
         [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam,
         cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]