vagabond

English

Etymology

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) enPR: văg'ə-bŏnd, IPA^(key): /ˈvæɡ.ə.bɒnd/

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Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
3. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.

   Synonyms: vagrant, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 4:12:

     When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

     "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Noveria:

     Anoleis: You will excuse me if I don't stand up.
     Anoleis: I have no time to entertain spaceborn vagabonds.

Related terms

• extravagant
• vague

Translations

a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time

• Bulgarian: скитник (bg) m (skitnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浪人 (zh) (làngrén)

• Coptic: ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲱϯ m (sarakōti)
• Czech: vagabund (cs) m
• Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c
• Dutch: vagebond (nl) m, zwerver (nl) m
• Finnish: kulkuri (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
• Georgian: მაწანწალა (mac̣anc̣ala), მოხეტიალე (ka) (moxeṭiale)
• German: Vagabund (de) m, Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin (de) f
• Hindi: आवारा (hi) m (āvārā)
• Hungarian: vándor (hu)
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (fūraibō)
• Maori: tipiwhenua

• Polish: włóczęga (pl) m, włóczykij (pl) m, wagabunda (pl) m
• Portuguese: vagabundo (pt) m
• Romanian: vagabond (ro) m
• Russian: стра́нник (ru) m (stránnik), стра́нница (ru) f (stránnica), скита́лец (ru) m (skitálec)
• Serbo-Croatian: lutalica (sh) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dundak m

• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Swedish: vagabond (sv)
• Turkish: avare (tr)
• Welsh: crwydryn m

a bum, a hobo, a tramp, a homeless person

• Bulgarian: бездо́мник (bg) m (bezdómnik), ски́тник (bg) m (skítnik), клоша́р m (klošár)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流浪漢 (zh), 流浪汉 (zh) (liúlànghàn)

• Crimean Tatar: bıralqı
• Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c, landstryger c, stodder (da) c
• Dutch: vagebond (nl) m, zwerver (nl) m
• Esperanto: vagulo
• Finnish: pummi (fi), kulkuri (fi), irtolainen (fi), asunnoton (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
• Georgian: მოხეტიალე (ka) (moxeṭiale), მაწანწალა (mac̣anc̣ala)
• German: Vagabund (de) m, Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀλήτης m (alḗtēs)

• Hungarian: csavargó (hu)
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (fūraibō)

• Latin: errō (la) m, planus m
• Maori: tipiwhenua, kōripi
• Navajo: naʼałjidí
• Norman: paillard m, vacâbond m
• Persian: ولگرد‎ (fa) (velgard)
• Polish: włóczęga (pl) m
• Portuguese: andarilho m
• Romanian: vagabond (ro) m
• Russian: бродя́га (ru) m (brodjága), бомж (ru) m (bomž)
• Serbo-Croatian: skitnica (sh) m, tumaralo (sh) m, vagabund (sh) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dundak m

• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Ukrainian: волоцюга (volocjuha), бродяга (uk) (brodjaha)
• Volapük: gliban (vo) m or f, higliban m, jigliban f
• Welsh: gŵr ar gylch m

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• Maori: ^{(please verify)} tiara

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

1. To roam, as a vagabond

Translations

to roam as a vagabond

• Bulgarian: скитам (bg) (skitam), безделнича (bg) (bezdelniča)
• Crimean Tatar: bıralqılamaq
• Esperanto: vagi
• Finnish: reissata
• Georgian: წანწალი (c̣anc̣ali), ხეტიალი (ka) (xeṭiali)
• German: vagabundieren (de)
• Japanese: 放浪する (hōrō suru), 流浪する (ja) (rurō suru)

• Maori: tipiwhenua
• Romanian: vagabonda (ro)
• Russian: скитаться (ru) impf (skitatʹsja)
• Swedish: ströva (sv), luffa (sv), vagabondera (sv)

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.

   • 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover

     Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.

Floating about

• Bulgarian: скитнически (bg) (skitničeski)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vagābundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃/

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Adjective

vagabond (feminine vagabonde, masculine plural vagabonds, feminine plural vagabondes)

1. vagabonding

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

1. vagabond

Derived terms

• courant vagabond
• vagabondage
• vagabonder

 

Further reading

• “vagabond”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• vagabund

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɡaˈbuŋd/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabond)

1. vagabond

Related terms

• vagabondé

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Romanian

Etymology

From French vagabond.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡaˈbond/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

1. tramp (a homeless person)

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Swedish

Noun

vagabond c

1. vagabond

   Synonym: lösdrivare

Declension

Declension of vagabond
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	vagabond	vagabonden	vagabonder	vagabonderna
Genitive	vagabonds	vagabondens	vagabonders	vagabondernas