vagabond

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

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

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Genesis iv. 12

     A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

• See Thesaurus:vagabond

• person

• extravagant

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

1. To roam, as a vagabond

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John 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.

Borrowed from Late Latin vagābundus.

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃/

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

1. vagabonding

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

1. vagabond

• vagabonder

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

From French vagabond.

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

1. tramp, (a homeless person)