nomad
noun
[ ˈnəʊmad ]
• a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.
• "the withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the Sahara to descend into the Nile valley"
Similar:
itinerant,
traveller,
migrant,
wanderer,
wayfarer,
roamer,
rover,
gypsy,
Bedouin,
transient,
drifter,
vagabond,
vagrant,
tramp,
refugee,
displaced person,
DP,
homeless person,
bird of passage,
Origin:
late 16th century: from French nomade, via Latin from Greek nomas, nomad- ‘roaming in search of pasture’, from the base of nemein ‘to pasture’.
