vagabond

English

Etymology

Latin vagabundus, from vagari, ‘wander’.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
2. 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.
   • Bible, Genesis iv. 12

     A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:vagabond

Hypernyms

• person

Related terms

• extravagant

Translations

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浪人 (zh) (làngrén)

• Danish: vagabond c, landevejsridder c
• Finnish: kulkuri (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
• German: Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin f
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (fūraibō)
• Maori: tipiwhenua

• Portuguese: vagabundo (pt) m
• Romanian: vagabond (ro) m
• Russian: странник (ru) m (stránnik), странница (ru) f (stránnica), скиталец (ru) m (skitálec)
• Serbo-Croatian: lutalica m
• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Swedish: vagabond (sv)
• Welsh: crwydryn m

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

• Bulgarian: бездомник (bg) m (bezdómnik), скитник (bg) m (skítnik), клошар m (klošár)
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: vagabond c, landevejsridder c, landstryger c, stodder (da) c
• Dutch: vagebond m
• Esperanto: vagulo
• Finnish: pummi (fi), kulkuri (fi), irtolainen, asunnoton (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f

• German: Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin f
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (fūraibō)
• Jèrriais: paillard m, vacâbond m
• Maori: tipiwhenua
• Portuguese: andarilho m
• Russian: бродяга (ru) m (brodjága), бомж (ru) m (bomž)
• Serbo-Croatian: skitnica m, tumaralo m, vagabund m
• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Volapük: (♂♀) gliban (vo), (♂) higliban, (♀) jigliban

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• Dutch: vagebond m (1, 2), zwerver m (1, 2)

• Maori: 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

• Finnish: reissata
• Japanese: 放浪する (hōrō suru), 流浪する (ja) (rurō suru)
• Maori: tipiwhenua

• Romanian: a vagabonda
• Swedish: ströva (sv)

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • Milton

     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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

1. vagabonding

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonds)

1. tramp (a homeless person)

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Romanian

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

1. tramp, (a homeless person)