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English

Etymology

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vag?bundus, from Latin vagari ("wander").

Pronunciation

(Canada, UK) enPR: v?g'?-b?nd, IPA^(key): /'væ?.?.b?nd/
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Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
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 hobo.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, [...] (King James Version), London: [...] Robert Barker, [...], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 4:12:
  
  A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:vagabond

Hypernyms

person

Related terms

Translations

a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time

Chinese:
Mandarin: (zh) (làngrén)
Coptic: ? m (sarak?ti)
Czech: vagabund (cs) m
Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c
Dutch: vagebond (nl) m, zwerver (nl) m
Finnish: kulkuri (fi)
French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
Georgian: (mac?anc?ala), (ka) (moxe?iale)
German: Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin (de) f
Hindi: (hi) m (?v?r?)
Hungarian: vándor (hu)
Japanese: (, h?r?sha), (f?raib?)
Maori: tipiwhenua

Polish: wagabunda (pl) m
Portuguese: vagabundo (pt) m
Romanian: vagabond (ro) m
Russian: (ru) m (stránnik), ? (ru) f (stránnica), (ru) m (skitálec)
Serbo-Croatian: lutalica (sh) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dundak m
Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
Swedish: vagabond (sv)
Welsh: crwydryn m

a bum, a hobo, a tramp, a homeless person

Bulgarian: ? (bg) m (bezdómnik), (bg) m (skítnik), ? m (klo?ár)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (zh), (zh) (liúlànghàn)
Crimean Tatar: b?ralq?
Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c, landstryger c, stodder (da) c
Dutch: vagebond (nl) m, zwerver (nl) m
Esperanto: vagulo
Finnish: pummi (fi), kulkuri (fi), irtolainen (fi), asunnoton (fi)
French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
Georgian: (ka) (moxe?iale), (mac?anc?ala)
German: Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: m (al?t?s)

Hungarian: csavargó (hu)
Japanese: (, h?r?sha), (f?raib?)
Latin: err? (la) m
Maori: tipiwhenua, k?ripi
Navajo: na'a?jidí
Norman: paillard m, vacâbond m
Persian: ‎ (fa) (velgard)
Portuguese: andarilho m
Russian: (ru) m (brodjága), ? (ru) m (bom?)
Serbo-Croatian: skitnica (sh) m, tumaralo (sh) m, vagabund (sh) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dundak m
Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
Ukrainian: (volocjuha), ? (uk) (brodjaha)
Volapük: gliban (vo) m or f, higliban m, jigliban f

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Maori: ^{(please verify)}tiara

Verb

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

To roam, as a vagabond

Translations

to roam as a vagabond

Crimean Tatar: b?ralq?lamaq
Finnish: reissata
Georgian: ? (c?anc?ali), ? (ka) (xe?iali)
German: vagabundieren (de)
Japanese: ? (h?r? suru), ? (ja) (rur? suru)

Maori: tipiwhenua
Romanian: vagabonda (ro)
Russian: (ru) impf (skitat?sja)
Swedish: ströva (sv), luffa (sv), vagabondera (sv)

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
- 1667, John Milton, "Book 10", in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: [...] [Samuel Simmons], [...], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [...], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [...], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
  To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover
  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.