nomad

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See also: NoMad, nomád, and nómad

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (wandering shepherd), from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, pasture). Compare Numidia.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnəʊmæd/
  • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈnoʊmæd/

Noun[edit]

nomad (plural nomads)

  1. (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
    • 1587, Philippe de Mornay, translated by Philip Sidney et al., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:
      The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...
    • 2013 August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
      Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
  2. (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
  3. (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
    • 2010, J. Knight, Unloved, →ISBN, page 58:
      Once again Judy was a nomad, moving to yet again another destination.
    • 2014, Dan Lovett, Anybody Seen Dan Lovett?: Memoirs of a media nomad, →ISBN, page 10:
      I made my exit down I-75, heading south. After a 40-year odyssey as a media nomad, I will be closing the circle in a place where my life had never been better.
    • 2016, Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense, →ISBN:
      Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.
  4. (figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.
    • 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion, →ISBN, page 282:
      With the recruitment of South Australian football nomad, and eventual legend of the game, Phil Matson, Subiaco would improve considerably in 1912.
    • 2014, Wayne Stewart, Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial, →ISBN, page 49:
      Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis.
    • 2015, Pete Cava, Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players, →ISBN:
      Between 1996 and 2003, Lewis was a baseball nomad. At various times he signed contracts with San Diego, Detroit, Oakland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, the New York Mets, Cleveland, and the Chicago Cubs.

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Adjective[edit]

nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)

  1. Synonym of nomadic.

References[edit]

  • "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French nomade. Compare Aromanian numad.

Noun[edit]

nomad m (plural nomazi, feminine equivalent nomadă)

  1. nomad

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /nǒmaːd/
  • Hyphenation: no‧mad

Noun[edit]

nòmād m (Cyrillic spelling но̀ма̄д)

  1. nomad

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French nomade. Attested since 1766.

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Noun[edit]

nomad c

  1. nomad

Declension[edit]

Declension of nomad 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nomad nomaden nomader nomaderna
Genitive nomads nomadens nomaders nomadernas

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