VAGABOND

aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant

(adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; “a drifting double-dealer”; “the floating population”; “vagrant hippies of the sixties”

rootless, vagabond

(adjective) wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; “led a vagabond life”; “a rootless wanderer”

vagabond

(noun) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; “pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea”

vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond, clochard

(noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

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 hobo.

Synonyms

• See vagabond

Hypernyms

• person

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

To roam, as a vagabond

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Source: Wiktionary

Vag"a*bond, a. Etym: [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.

2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. Milton.

3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

Vag"a*bond, n.

Definition: 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. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12.

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.

Vag"a*bond, v. i.

Definition: To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. On every part my vagabonding sight Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight. Drummond.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition