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/

  • Audio (UK)

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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; a vagrant; a hobo.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 4:12:

     A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:vagabond

Hypernyms

• person

Related terms

• extravagant
• vague

Translations

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

• 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: 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: 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)
• 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: 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
• Maori: tipiwhenua, kōripi
• Navajo: naʼałjidí
• Norman: paillard m, vacâbond m
• Persian: ولگرد‎ (fa) (velgard)
• Portuguese: andarilho 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

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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

• Crimean Tatar: bıralqılamaq
• 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 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], 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.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vagābundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃/

• Audio

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Adjective

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

1. vagabonding

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

1. vagabond

Derived terms

• vagabonder

Further reading

• “vagabond” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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)