vagabond

Speech parts

1. vagabond - Noun

2. vagabond - Adjective

3. vagabond - Verb

4. vagabond - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.

To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

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Examples

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man? G. K. Chesterton

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. Oliver Goldsmith

There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp. William Faulkner

The vagabond who's rapping at your door, Is standing in the clothes that you once wore, Strike another match, go start anew! And it's all over now, Baby Blue. Bob Dylan

I am doing my best to glorify the scamp or vagabond. Lin Yutang

A vagabond monk never spoke well of his convent. Italian Proverb

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