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VAGRANT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Synonyms:

clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)

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

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

beachcomber (a vagrant living on a beach)

sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)

bum; hobo; tramp (a vagrant)

Derivation:

vagrant (continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

Example:

vagrant hippies of the sixties

Synonyms:

aimless; drifting; floating; vagabond; vagrant

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unsettled (not settled or established)

Derivation:

vagrancy (the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood)

vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I am not absolutely such a fool and sensualist as to regret the absence of a carpet, a sofa, and silver plate; besides, five weeks ago I had nothing—I was an outcast, a beggar, a vagrant; now I have acquaintance, a home, a business.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)