What is "vagrant" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does vagrant mean in English? Meaning of vagrant definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "vagrant" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "vagrant": a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Noun

  • Meaning: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
  • Synonyms: drifter floater vagabond vagrant
  • Hyponyms: beachcomber bum hobo sundowner tramp
  • Hypernyms: bird of passage have-not poor person roamer rover wanderer
  • Meaning of "vagrant": continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

    Adjective

  • Meaning: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
  • Example: a drifting double-dealer the floating population vagrant hippies of the sixties
  • Synonyms: aimless drifting floating vagabond vagrant
  • Similar: unsettled
  • Adjective: A person without a home or job. 2002, Jeffrey J. Rowland, WIGU: Day two begins Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap? Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants. Wigu: I stink.2002, Jeffrey J. Rowland, WIGU: Day two begins Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap? Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants. Wigu: I stink.A wanderer. Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.(ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
  • Synonyms:

    transient, itinerant, wanderer, drifter, street person, floater, homeless person, rolling stone,

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    vagrant in English: vagrant
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