vagrant
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grənt noun
1.
a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
2.
Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.
3.
a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.
4.
wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage: vagrant beggars.
5.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a vagrant: the vagrant life.
adjective
6.
wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.
7.
(of plants) straggling in growth.
8.
not fixed or settled, especially in course; moving hither and thither: a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.
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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English vagaraunt, apparently present participle of Anglo-French *vagrer, perhaps < Middle English *vagren, blend of vagen (< Latin vagārī to wander) and *walcren (> Old French wa(u)crer), equivalent to walc- (see walk) + -r- frequentative suffix + -en infinitive suffix
1400–50; late Middle English vagaraunt, apparently present participle of Anglo-French *vagrer, perhaps < Middle English *vagren, blend of vagen (< Latin vagārī to wander) and *walcren (> Old French wa(u)crer), equivalent to walc- (see walk) + -r- frequentative suffix + -en infinitive suffix
Related forms
va·grant·ly, adverb
va·grant·ness, noun
non·va·grant, adjective
non·va·grant·ly, adverb
non·va·grant·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. Vagrant, vagabond describe an idle, disreputable person who lacks a fixed abode. Vagrant suggests a tramp, a person with no settled abode or livelihood, an idle and disorderly person: picked up by police as a vagrant. Vagabond especially emphasizes the idea of worthless living, often by trickery, thieving, or other disreputable means: Actors were once classed with rogues and vagabonds.
1. Vagrant, vagabond describe an idle, disreputable person who lacks a fixed abode. Vagrant suggests a tramp, a person with no settled abode or livelihood, an idle and disorderly person: picked up by police as a vagrant. Vagabond especially emphasizes the idea of worthless living, often by trickery, thieving, or other disreputable means: Actors were once classed with rogues and vagabonds.
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vagrant (ˈveɪɡrənt, ˈveɪɡrəm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person of no settled abode, income, or job; tramp |
| 2. | a migratory animal that is off course |
| —adj | |
| 3. | wandering about; nomadic |
| 4. | of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant or vagabond |
| 5. | moving in an erratic fashion, without aim or purpose; wayward |
| 6. | (of plants) showing uncontrolled or straggling growth |
| [C15: probably from Old French waucrant (from wancrer to roam, of Germanic origin), but also influenced by Old French vagant vagabond, from Latin vagārī to wander] | |
| 'vagrantly | |
| —adv | |
| 'vagrantness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
vagrant
mid-15c., perhaps an alteration (by influence of L. vagari "wander") of Anglo-Fr. wacrant, prp. of O.Fr. wacrer "to walk or wander," from a Gmc. source (e.g. O.N. valka "wander"). The adj. is recorded from mid-15c.
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Example sentences
In the end, after certain vagrant incidents, they are reconciled-but don't ask us why.
They are astonishing, those eyes: pale and opalescent, with vagrant beams of light glancing from the corneas.
And the unctuousness of its expression will take care of a lot of vagrant hopes.
While pleading on almost every page for the rights of the poor, he has no sentimental pity for the idle vagrant.
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