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US
/ˈvæɡəbɑnd/
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[ UK /vˈæɡɐbˌɒnd/ ]
[ UK /vˈæɡɐbˌɒnd/ ]
NOUN
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
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anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea
VERB
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move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
The cattle roam across the prairie
They rolled from town to town
The gypsies roamed the woods
roving vagabonds
the laborers drift from one town to the next
the wandering Jew
ADJECTIVE
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wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
a rootless wanderer
led a vagabond life -
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
vagrant hippies of the sixties
the floating population
a drifting double-dealer
How To Use vagabond In A Sentence
- There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
- Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
- This country must not be made the dumping-ground for foreign vagabondism. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
- Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars.
- He vagabonded his way to Paris and immediately settled into a bohemian life.
- The extent of his acting ability is further shown in his portrayal of his own vagabond jazz trombonist father.
- Three categories of poor were subsequently recognized: sturdy beggars or vagabonds, regarded as potential trouble-makers, the infirm, and the deserving unemployed.
- Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century; for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knockdowns and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight. Sketches New And Old
- I was a vagabond disk jockey on small stations with little income at age 30.
- Perhaps not coincidentally, Amelia's vagabonding seems to have run across a few stops of the National Air Races which were underway at the same time.
