vagabond
English
Etymology
From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada, UK) enPR: văg'ə-bŏnd, IPA(key): /ˈvæɡ.ə.bɒnd/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
vagabond (plural vagabonds)
- A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
- One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
- Synonyms: vagrant, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 4:12:
- When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Noveria:
- Anoleis: You will excuse me if I don't stand up.
Anoleis: I have no time to entertain spaceborn vagabonds.
Related terms
- extravagant
- vague
Translations
a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time
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a bum, a hobo, a tramp, a homeless person
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Verb
vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)
- To roam, as a vagabond
Translations
to roam as a vagabond
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Adjective
vagabond (not comparable)
- Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover
- Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
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Floating about
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin vagābundus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Adjective
vagabond (feminine vagabonde, masculine plural vagabonds, feminine plural vagabondes)
- vagabonding
Noun
vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)
- vagabond
Derived terms
- courant vagabond
- vagabondage
- vagabonder
Further reading
- “vagabond”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- vagabund
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vaɡaˈbuŋd/
Noun
vagabond m (plural vagabond)
- vagabond
Related terms
- vagabondé
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French vagabond.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.ɡaˈbond/
Noun
vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)
- tramp (a homeless person)
Swedish
Noun
vagabond c
- vagabond
- Synonym: lösdrivare
Declension
Declension of vagabond | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | vagabond | vagabonden | vagabonder | vagabonderna |
Genitive | vagabonds | vagabondens | vagabonders | vagabondernas |