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Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

  • A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  • One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
    • ✤ Synonyms: vagrant, hobo; see also Thesaurus: vagabond
    • ✤ Foꝛ when thou tylleſt the grounde ſhe ſhall hẽcefoꝛth not geve hyꝛ power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate ſhalt thou be vpon the erth.1
    • ✤ “Here is the beastly thing. ‘Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty’s subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond’, and so on and so forth.”2
    • ✤ Anoleis: You will excuse me if I don’t stand up.
      Anoleis: I have no time to entertain spaceborn vagabonds.      3

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

  • To roam, as a vagabond

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

  • Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
    • ✤ To heaven their prayers/Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds/Blown vagabond or frustrate.4
    • ✤ Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.5

Etymology

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: văg’ə-bŏnd, IPA: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/
    • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (Canada, General American) enPR: văg’ə-band, IPA: /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/

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Footnotes

  1. 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow[Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Genesis iiij:[12], folio v, verso: ↩

  2. 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019: ↩

  3. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria: ↩

  4. 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a] nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a] nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: ↩

  5. 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover: ↩

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