Adjective: vagabond 'va-gu,bónd
Usage: archaic
- Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
"led a vagabond life";
- rootless
- Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
"a vagabond double-dealer";
- drifting, floating, vagrant
- Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
"pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"
- A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
"The vagabond moved from town to town, picking up odd jobs";
- vagrant, drifter, floater, clochard, vag [Austral, informal]
Usage: archaic
- Move about aimlessly or without any fixed destination
"roving vagabonds";
- roll, wander, swan [informal], stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift
Derived forms: vagabonded, vagabonding, vagabonds
See also: unsettled
Type of: article, bird of passage, go, have-not, locomote, move, object, physical object, poor person, roamer, rover, travel, wanderer
Encyclopedia: Vagabond