Nomadic
[nəʊ'mædɪk]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Wandering, migratory, vagrant, roving, strolling.
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Examples
- We may note one or two points of difference from the equivalent life of the nomadic Semites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then one sort of men began to settle down, and another sort became more distinctly nomadic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This created a serious scarcity, and a nomadic operator going to any telegraphic centre would be sure to find a place open waiting for him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The nomadic instinct can not be educated out of an Indian at all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is possible that, in the case of iron, the first users were nomadic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were, perhaps, not so far advanced along the nomadic line as the Scythians of the great plains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Add to this that the nomadic life prevents any great class inequalities or any extensive development of slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neolithic man was nomadic in a different spirit from the mere daylight drift after food of the primordial hunter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One must not think of a nomadic stage as a predecessor of a settled stage in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All such influences were still in another world, separated by mountains, deserts, and wild nomadic tribes until that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The normal nomadic life is not a homeless one, but a movement between homes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a nomadic drift to the east of Persia and southward through Afghanistan towards India, as well as this drift to the north-west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They kept up the nomadic tradition as against the new ways of the settlement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We write here of the nomadic peoples, the Aryan herdsmen and Semitic shepherds, and we write in the most general terms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Medes and Persians formed an alliance with the nomadic Semitic Chaldeans of the south for the joint undoing of Assyria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They came rather later in time, and their nomadic life was more highly developed than that of the primitive Aryans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the gods of the nomadic Semites had not this marrying disposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are presented as patriarchal Bedouin chiefs, living the life of nomadic shepherds in the country between Babylonia and Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Egypt was conquered by nomadic Semites, who founded a shepherd dynasty, the Hyksos (XVIth), which was finally expelled by native Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the case of Babylonia these were nomadic Semites, the Bedouin, like the Bedouin of to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some people think that the use of milk, cheese, butter, and other milk products came later into human life when men became nomadic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The pilgrims read Nomadic Life and keep themselves in a constant state of Quixotic heroism. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Edison Young Edison remained in Louisville for about two years, quite a long stay for one with such nomadic instincts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They had few cities, mostly they were nomadic; at times they settled temporarily to cultivate the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the religion of the nomadic Semite was as little organized as the religion of the Aryan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were a horde of nomadic horsemen living in tents, and subsisting mainly upon mare's milk products and meat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Great areas of the American interior were prairie land, whose nomadic tribes subsisted upon vast herds of the now practically extinct bison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The world from the Danube to the Chinese frontiers was still largely a nomadic world, with towns and cities growing up upon the chief trade routes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The nomadic life of the next few years did not lessen his devotion to study; but it stood seriously in the way of satisfying the ever-present craving for a laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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