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vagrant noun [ ˈveɪɡr(ə)nt ]

• a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
Similar: tramp, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar, itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, vagabond, transient, migrant, homeless person, beachcomber, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone, hobo, bagman, knockabout, overlander, sundowner, whaler, streety, bag lady, bum, bindlestiff, outie, derro,

vagrant adjective

• relating to or living the life of a vagrant.
• "vagrant beggars"
Similar: homeless, drifting, transient, roving, roaming, floating, unsettled, footloose, itinerant, wandering, nomadic, travelling, ambulatory, mobile, on the move, journeying, rambling, touring, vagabond, migrant, migrating, migratory, rootless, of no fixed address/abode, errant,
Origin: late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vagarant ‘wandering about’, from the verb vagrer .


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