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GIPSY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who resembles a Gypsy in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life
Synonyms:
gipsy; gypsy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gipsy" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
Synonyms:
Bohemian; Gipsy; Gypsy; Roma; Romani; Romany; Rommany
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Gipsy" is a kind of...):
Indian (a native or inhabitant of India)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gipsy"):
gitana (a Spanish female Gypsy)
gitano (a Spanish male Gypsy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
Example:
itinerant traders
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("gipsy" is a kind of...):
jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gipsy"):
swagger; swaggie; swagman (an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work)
tinker (formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living)
Context examples:
On my way through the hall, I encountered her little dog, who was called Jip—short for Gipsy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The last night's ball seemed lost in the gipsies.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In the van of the gipsies who camped on the moor.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They are peculiar to this part of the world, though allied to the ordinary gipsies all the world over.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he was a lad.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There is to be no form or parade—a sort of gipsy party.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
As I waited I heard in the distance a gipsy song sung by merry voices coming closer, and through their song the rolling of heavy wheels and the cracking of whips; the Szgany and the Slovaks of whom the Count had spoken were coming.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You did not act the character of a gipsy with me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
