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–noun

1.	a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.

2.	any wanderer; itinerant.

–adjective

nomadic.

[Origin: 1580–90; < L nomad- < Gk, s. of nomás pasturing flocks, akin to némein to pasture, graze

]

—Related forms

no·mad·ism, noun

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n.

A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.

[French nomade, from Latin nomas, nomad-, from Greek nomas, wandering in search of pasture; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

no·mad'ic adj., no·mad'i·cal·ly adv., no'mad'ism n.

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1555, from M.Fr. nomade, from L. Nomas (gen. Nomadis) "wandering groups in Arabia," from Gk. nomas (gen. nomados, pl. nomades) "roaming, roving, wandering" (to find pastures for flocks or herds), related to nomos "pasture," lit. "land allotted," and to nemein "put to pasture," originally "deal out," from PIE base *nem- "to divide, distribute, allot" (see nemesis).

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nomad
noun
a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons

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nomad [ˈnəumӕd] noun

one of a group of people with no permanent home who travel about with their sheep, cattle etc
Example: Many of the people of central Asia are nomads.

Arabic:	راحِل، مُتَرَحِّل
Chinese (Simplified):	游牧民, 流浪者
Chinese (Traditional):	遊牧民, 流浪者
Czech:	kočovník
Danish:	nomade
Dutch:	nomade
Estonian:	nomaad
Finnish:	paimentolainen
French:	nomade
German:	der Nomade, *die Nomadin
Greek:	νομάδαςς
Hungarian:	nomád
Icelandic:	hirðingi
Indonesian:	pengembara
Italian:	nomade

Japanese:	遊牧民
Korean:	유목민, 유랑자
Latvian:	nomads, klejotājs
Lithuanian:	klajoklis
Norwegian:	nomade
Polish:	koczownik
Portuguese (Brazil):	nômade
Portuguese (Portugal):	nómada
Romanian:	nomad
Russian:	кочевник
Slovak:	kočovník
Slovenian:	nomad
Spanish:	nómada
Swedish:	nomad
Turkish:	göçebe

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NOMAD language, database
A database language.
Version: NOMAD2 from Must Software International.
["NOMAD Reference Manual", Form 1004, National CSS Inc, Dec 1976].
(1995-04-01)

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As*tron"o*my\, n. [OE. astronomie, F. astronomie, L. astronomia, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? astronomer; 'asth`r star + ? to distribute, regulate. See Star, and Nomad.]

1. Astrology. [Obs.]

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy. --Shak.

2. The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.

3. A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.

Physical astronomy. See under Physical.

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E*con"o*my\, n.; pl. Economies. [F. ['e]conomie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? one managing a household; ? house (akin to L. vicus village, E. vicinity) + ? usage, law, rule, fr. ne`mein to distribute, manage. See Vicinity, Nomad.]

1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.

Himself busy in charge of the household economies. --Froude.

2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.

The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language. --Earle.

In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. --B. Jonson.

The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. --Paley.

4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.

Political economy. See under Political.

Syn: Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice.

I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease. --Swift.

The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness]. --Golding.

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Nem"e*sis\, n. [L., fr. gr. ?, orig., distribution, fr. ? to distribute. See Nomad.] (Class. Myth.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.

This is that ancient doctrine of nemesis who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offense go unchastised. --Emerson.

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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.

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Nomad

Nom"ad\, a. Roving; nomadic.

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Nomad

Nom"ade\, n. [F.] See Nomad, n.

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No*mad"ic\, a. [Gr. ?. See Nomad.] Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe. -- No*mad"ic*al*ly, adv.

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Numb\, a. [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of nimen to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. [root]7. See Nimble, Nomad, and cf. Benumb.]

1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." --Shak.

2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.] --Shak.

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Num"ber\, n. [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to Gr. ? that which is dealt out, fr. ? to deal out, distribute. See Numb, Nomad, and cf. Numerate, Numero, Numerous.]

1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.

2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers. --Addison.

3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.

4. Numerousness; multitude.

Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage. --Bacon.

5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable.

Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number. --2 Esdras iii. 7.

6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.

7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope.

8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.

9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc.

In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers.

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Nu`mis*mat"ic\, Numismatical \Nu`mis*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. numisma, nomisma, a piece of money, coin, fr. Gr. ? anything sanctioned by usage, the current coin, fr. ? to introduce a custom, or usage, fr. ? a custom, or usage, fr. ? to distribute, assign: cf. F. numismatique. See Nomad.] Of or pertaining to coins; relating to the science of coins or medals.

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NOMAD
Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Association