EGAVE

vagrant

About 0.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
  2. noun A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
    Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.
  3. noun Any member of the species Vagrans egista of widely distributed Asian butterflies of the family Nymphalidae.
  4. noun An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
  5. adjective Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
    a vagrant beggar
  6. adjective Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
  7. adjective Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

Similar words

vagabond drifter unsettled floating drifting aimless vagrancy wandering stray tramp

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Word family

vagrantly vagrants

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