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    NOMAD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasonsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("nomad" is a kind of...):

    bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer (someone who leads a wandering unsettled life)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nomad"):

    Bedouin; Beduin (a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs)

    Bushman; Khoisan (nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa)

    Hun (a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century)

    Saracen ((historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire)

    Scythian (a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia)

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