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vagrant

Pronunciation: /ˈveɪɡɹənt/

The English word “vagrant” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
  2. A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
  3. Any member of the species Vagrans egista of widely distributed Asian butteflies of the family Nymphalidae.
  4. An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

adjective

  1. Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
  2. Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
  3. Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

Etymology

From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”) [and other forms], perhaps influenced by Latin vagārī, the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, stroll…

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