Vagrant
['veɪgr(ə)nt] or ['veɡrənt]
Definition
(noun.) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support.
Typist: Rosa--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
(a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
(n.) One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
Editor: Lucius
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Vagabond.
a. Strolling, wandering, roving, roaming, unsettled, nomadic.
Typed by Billie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vagabond, strolling, itinerant, wandering, sauntering, roaming, roving
ANT:Domestic, established, local, resident
Edited by Carlos
Definition
adj. wandering without any settled dwelling: unsettled: uncertain erratic: (med.) wandering.—n. one who has no settled home: an idle or disorderly person: a beggar.—ns. Vā′grancy Vā′grantness (rare) the state of being a vagrant: life and habits of a vagrant.—adv. Vā′grantly.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are a vagrant, portends poverty and misery. To see vagrants is a sign of contagion invading your community. To give to a vagrant, denotes that your generosity will be applauded.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged--meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The dictionary tells us that a dream is a train of vagrant ideas which present themselves to the mind while we are asleep. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We talk of poverty and forget poor people; we make rules for vagrancy--we forget the vagrant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Then the long flowing, yellow locks of the Holy Thern, caught by some vagrant draught, blew about my face. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I'll give you a piece of bread, she said, after a pause; but we can't take in a vagrant to lodge. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Do you find any gypsies, now, or tramps, or vagrants of any sort, out there? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nothing else to be permitted to those same vagrants the Arts, on pain of excommunication. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Matt