vagabond
noun
[ ˈvaɡəbɒnd ]
• a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.
Similar:
itinerant,
wanderer,
nomad,
wayfarer,
traveller,
gypsy,
rover,
tramp,
vagrant,
drifter,
transient,
migrant,
homeless person,
derelict,
beachcomber,
down-and-out,
beggar,
knight of the road,
bird of passage,
rolling stone,
hobo,
bagman,
knockabout,
overlander,
sundowner,
whaler,
bag lady,
bum,
bindlestiff,
outie,
derro,
vagabond
adjective
• having no settled home.
• "a vagabond poacher"
Similar:
itinerant,
wandering,
nomadic,
travelling,
ambulatory,
mobile,
on the move,
journeying,
roving,
roaming,
vagrant,
transient,
floating,
migrant,
migrating,
migratory,
refugee,
displaced,
homeless,
rootless,
drifting,
unsettled,
footloose,
of no fixed address/abode,
errant,
vagabond
verb
• wander about as or like a vagabond.
• "he went vagabonding about the world"
Origin:
Middle English (originally denoting a criminal): from Old French, or from Latin vagabundus, from vagari ‘wander’.
