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vagrant
[ vey-gruhnt ]
noun
- a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
- Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.
- a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.
- wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage:
vagrant beggars.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant:
the vagrant life.
- wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.
- (of plants) straggling in growth.
- not fixed or settled, especially in course; moving hither and thither:
a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.
vagrant
/ ˈɪɡəԳ /
noun
- a person of no settled abode, income, or job; tramp
- a migratory animal that is off course
adjective
- wandering about; nomadic
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant or vagabond
- moving in an erratic fashion, without aim or purpose; wayward
- (of plants) showing uncontrolled or straggling growth
Derived Forms
- ˈԳٲԱ, noun
- ˈԳٱ, adverb
Other yvlogs From
- gԳ· adverb
- gԳ·Ա noun
- ԴDz·gԳ adjective
- non·gԳ· adverb
- non·gԳ·Ա noun
- ܲ·gԳ adjective
- un·gԳ· adverb
- un·gԳ·Ա noun
yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
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Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"Romanians go to other countries for work, but we have so many resources here. Wood, grain - and our soil is very rich. Why should we be vagrants in Italy?"
He plays Tom T. Shiftlet, a one-armed vagrant who talks a woman into taking him on as her handyman, then marries her mute, deaf daughter, Lucynell.
Our caravan had dwindled down to a small band of vagrants.
But from the arguments, it’s not clear the court will say Grants Pass went too far and violated the “vagrants’ ” constitutional rights.
A podcast by the right-wing Cicero Institute suggested that instead of calling people “homeless,” we revert to words like “vagrants,” “bums” and “tramps.”
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