vagrant
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(dated)A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
Đồng nghĩa: itinerant, rover, ambler, flaneur, gadling, itinerant, nomad, peregrinator, rambler, rover, saunterer, straggler, stroller, vagrant, walke-street, wanderer
- 2.
(specifically)A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.
Đồng nghĩa: drifter, hobo, bum, stiff, casual, clochard, derelict, dero, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, epithite, floater, gadling, hobo, Jack out of doors, knight of the road, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, nomad, paker, palliard, pike, piker, ranger, rogue, rolling stone, rough sleeper, scatterling, skelder, skell, stroller, stumblebum, swagman, swaggie, toerag, tramp, truant, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, waif, yagger
- 3.
Any of species Vagrans egista of widely distributed Asian butteflies of the family Nymphalidae.
- 4.
(especially)(biology, especially ornithology) An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
a vagrant beggar
Đồng nghĩa: itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, vagabond, vagrom, vague
- 2.
Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
- 3.
(figuratively)(figurative) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.
Đồng nghĩa: inconstant, straggling, straying, vagabond, vagrom, vague, wayward
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ine-pro From Late Middle English vagraunt, probably from vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (vagrant) and Old French walcrant, waucrant (roaming, wandering)wacrant, perhaps influenced by Latin vagārī, the present active infinitive of vagor (to ramble, stroll about; to roam, rove, wander).