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vagabond
[ vag-uh-bond ]
adjective
- wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic:
a vagabond tribe.
- leading an unsettled or carefree life.
- disreputable; worthless; shiftless.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagabond:
vagabond habits.
- having an uncertain or irregular course or direction:
a vagabond voyage.
vagabond
/ ˈvæɡəˌbɒnd /
noun
- a person with no fixed home
- an idle wandering beggar or thief
- modifier of or like a vagabond; shiftless or idle
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Derived Forms
- ˈvagaˌbondism, noun
- ˈvagaˌbondage, noun
- ˈvagaˌbondish, adjective
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Other Words From
- vaga·bondish adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vagabond1
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Origin of vagabond1
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Example Sentences
Jackson left Goodwin Procter in 2002, becoming “something of a professional vagabond, moving from place to place as my family needs and circumstances changed,” she said.
Stories like these are familiar to anyone who has ever lived in a ski town, where rising rent and a vagabond lifestyle are common.
There’s a certain vagabond nature to the job, and for all the familiarity Storen, Clippard and Stammen brought to those early contending Nats teams, the club has been on the lookout for new arms ever since.
It was a hierarchical society, where, according to the Articles of Confederation, “paupers” and “vagabonds” weren’t due the protection of the law.
The century-old club sandwich had a pretty good run, and it was a favorite snack of voyagers and vagabonds since its beginning.
Llewyn Davis is a troubadour and vagabond, one who happens to be in grief.
Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.
“Sarah Palin is a true believer,” Bess told me over coffee at Vagabond Blues, a café 20 miles from Wasilla in the town of Palmer.
Pride forbade him to confess himself a homeless, penniless vagabond.
He accordingly took him into his service, but soon found him to be an idle and thievish vagabond.
St. Augustine complains of certain vagabond monks who went about selling relics of the martyrs, if indeed martyrs they were.
Never forget our rule: 'A true vagabond, twenty-four hours after a pillage, must have nothing left but his skin and his knife.'
Look at the swagger of the vagabond who commands his braves, would you not think he was about to hew down everything in sight?
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