Nomad
['nəʊmæd] or ['nomæd]
Definition
(noun.) a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
Typed by Ellie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
(a.) Roving; nomadic.
Typist: Rudy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Wandering tribe, nomadic people.[2]. Wanderer, BOOLY.
Edited by Colin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pastoral, vagrant, Arab, Scythian, roving, migratory
ANT:Fixed, unwandering, agricultural, unroving, urban
Edited by Gail
Definition
n. one of a tribe that wanders about in quest of game or of pasture for their flocks.—adj. Nomad′ic of or for the feeding of cattle: pastoral: pertaining to the life of nomads: wandering: unsettled: rude.—adv. Nomad′ically.—v.i. Nom′adise to lead a nomadic or vagabond life.—n. Nom′adism the state of being nomadic: habits of nomads.
Checker: Rudolph
Examples
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In most of us, irked by its conventions and complexities, there stirs the nomad strain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The nomad was not simply an uncivilized man, he was a man specialized and specializing along his own line. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was a nomad of the savage school, and he created an empire of desolation from North India to Syria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This hostility exacerbated the natural discord of nomad and townsman. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the very beginning of history the nomad and the settled people have been in reaction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- China has to tell a long history of border warfare and of graver struggles between the settled and nomad peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nomad peoples also range very widely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Chief among these new nomad tribes were the Ukraine Cossacks on the Dnieper and the Don Cossacks on the Don. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The settled sort began to rely more and more upon grain for food; the nomad began to make a greater use of milk for food. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Semitic nomads of the Arabian desert seem also to have had a heliolithic stage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The townsmen despise and cheat the nomads, the nomads ill-treat and despise the townsfolk. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were not nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They became a weapon against the dwindling power of the Mongolian nomads, first in Turkestan and then across Siberia as far as the Amur. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are primitive nomads in an excited state, because they have just come upon civilization, and regard it as an opportunity for war and loot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wells were stopped up and pastures destroyed by the nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These streams of nomads flowed by Persia on either side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nomads without central grazing lands must disperse; nothing else is possible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A second great thrust by China began about 75 A.D., and accelerated the westward drift of the nomads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Down pour the united nomads on the unwarlike, unarmed plains, and there ensues a war of conquest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We must tell now who this prophet was who had arisen among the nomads and traders of the Arabian desert. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The drift of the nomads before this Chinese thrust, century by century, turned southward at first towards Bactria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In contrast with the settled folk, the agriculturists, these nomads lived freely and dangerously. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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