nomad
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French nomade, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.
Pronunciation
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Noun
nomad (plural nomads)
- (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
- 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay as 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, Vol. 101, No. 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.
- 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay as A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:
- (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
- (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.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (wanderer): See Thesaurus:vagabond
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
a member of society or class who wander with their herds
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a wanderer — see wanderer
Adjective
nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)
- Synonym of nomadic.
References
- "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
nòmād m (Cyrillic spelling но̀ма̄д)
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