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DRIFTER

Pronunciation (US):

• DRIFTER (noun)
The noun DRIFTER has 1 sense:

1. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Familiarity information: DRIFTER used as a noun is very rare.

• DRIFTER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

drifter; vagrant; vagabond; floater

Hypernyms ("drifter" is a kind of...):

have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)

bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer (someone who leads a wandering unsettled life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drifter"):

beachcomber (a vagrant living on a beach)

sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)

bum; hobo; tramp (a disreputable vagrant)

"You can't teach grandma to suck eggs."
(English proverb)
"Someone else's pain is easy to carry"
(Breton proverb)
"Human thinks and God plans."
(Arabic proverb)
"Where there is smoke, there is fire too."
(Croatian proverb)

Useful links:
Pronunciation of bird of passage
Meaning of bum
Pronunciation of wanderer
Meaning of tramp
Pronunciation of beachcomber

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