VAGRANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does vagrant mean?
• VAGRANT (noun)
The noun VAGRANT has 1 sense:
1. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Familiarity information: VAGRANT used as a noun is very rare.
• VAGRANT (adjective)
The adjective VAGRANT has 1 sense:
1. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
Familiarity information: VAGRANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VAGRANT (noun)
Meaning:
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
drifter; vagrant; vagabond; floater
Hypernyms ("vagrant" 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 "vagrant"):
beachcomber (a vagrant living on a beach)
sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)
bum; hobo; tramp (a disreputable vagrant)
• VAGRANT (adjective)
Meaning:
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
Synonyms:
drifting; floating; vagrant; aimless; vagabond
Context examples:
a drifting double-dealer / the floating population / vagrant hippies of the sixties
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
"Tomorrow may not be a better day, but there will always be a better tomorrow." (English proverb)
"Those who lost dreaming are lost." (Aboriginal Australian proverbs)
"You are as many a person as the languages you know." (Armenian proverb)
"Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old." (Scottish proverb)
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