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Meanings of vagabond in English

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Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another.

Related terms
Portuguese
mendigo
Catalan
vagabund

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support.

mendigo
Synonyms
Examples for "floater"
Examples for "floater"
1
The air-floater took off as soon as they climbed in, heading east.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
2
The retrieval accuracy improved when greater proportions of the floater were selected.
Pubmed
3
The air-floater rose ever higher, well out over the depression of Kalithras.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
4
The air-floater drifted serenely across the skies, heading northeast toward the coast.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
5
Irisis woke in the night, realising that the air-floater was not moving.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
1
Despite being a drifter, Showmanship held the most money in the race.
News.com.au
2
We reached a little unfrequented pier and jumped into the drifter's boat.
The Man from the Clouds
3
We never got the ones that shot Collins or the drifter.
The Rangeland Avenger
4
In the worldwide community of hackers, Hiro is a talented drifter.
Snow Crash
5
Economically they are of greater value to society than the drifter.
Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Isra...
Portuguese
vadiar
Catalan
vagar
Spanish
deambular

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.

vadiar

A person abandoned by society, esp. a person without a permanent home and means of support.

Usage of vagabond in English
1
I have a vagabond streak in my blood and it's in evidence.
A Girl of the Limberlost
2
Beverly laughed with keen enjoyment over the discomfiture of the shame-faced vagabond.
Beverly of Graustark
3
He stuck his hands in his pockets, and felt vagabond-like and reckless.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
4
You indulge in a gesture of annoyance, and call me a vagabond.
Led Astray and The Sphinx / Two Novellas In One Volume
5
Every kind of restraint was naturally intolerable to such a vagabond nature.
The Clique of Gold
6
It was brought, however, and the vagabond began to get into it.
Marie; a story of Russian love
7
For three years Oliver remained under the care of his vagabond teacher.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
8
Those vagabond soldiers are strutting about the streets with such insolent airs.
Dona Perfecta
9
He went downstairs pondering what could be done for the old vagabond.
The History of David Grieve
10
Against him there was only this poor vagabond from Nazareth-andthe Invisible.
King of the Jews: A story of Christ's last days on Earth
11
The vagabond had paid his penalty, but desired no more of earth.
Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 2.
12
Why, Mademoiselle paused to talk with a vagabond, clad in a blouse.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
13
She was, in fact, no better than a vagabond upon this earth.
Vanity Fair
14
The professional window shopper is a vagabond at heart- aloitererby nature.
Vignettes of San Francisco
15
I want you to stop calling me a rascal and a vagabond.
The Young Bridge-Tender; or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle
16
Even then his thought was clean, no vagabond sensuality clouding his mind.
Wait until spring, bandini
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Translations for vagabond
Spanish
deambular
Vagabond through the time
Vagabond across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare