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VAGRANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Synonyms:
clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vagrant" is a kind of...):
have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)
bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer (someone who leads a wandering unsettled life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vagrant"):
beachcomber (a vagrant living on a beach)
sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)
Derivation:
vagrant (continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
Example:
vagrant hippies of the sixties
Synonyms:
aimless; drifting; floating; vagabond; vagrant
Classified under:
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
Derivation:
vagrancy (the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood)
vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)
Context examples:
I am not absolutely such a fool and sensualist as to regret the absence of a carpet, a sofa, and silver plate; besides, five weeks ago I had nothing—I was an outcast, a beggar, a vagrant; now I have acquaintance, a home, a business.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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