vagabond

Plural: vagabonds

Noun

• anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
  • "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"
• a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: vagabonded, vagabonding, vagabonds

• To wander from place to place without a permanent home.
• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • "roving vagabonds"
• To roam, as a vagabond

Adjective Satellite

• wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
  • "led a vagabond life"
• continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

Adj

• Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Examples

• I watched my opponent’s letters VAGABOND across the board, unable to form a strong word.

Synonyms

aimless, cast, drift, drifter, drifting, floater, floating, ramble, range, roam, roll, rootless, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagrant, wander, Jack out of doors, bum, casual, clochard, derelict, dero, down-and-out, down-and-outer, epithite, gadling, hobo, knight of the road, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, nomad, paker, palliard, pike, piker, ranger, rogue, rolling stone, rough sleeper, scatterling, skelder, skell, stroller, stumblebum, swaggie, swagman, toerag, truant, vagabond, waif, wanderer, yagger

Related Words

beggar, extravagant, idler, pauper, vague

Anagrams of vagabond