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NOMAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
Classified under:
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)