Antonyms for vagabond
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : vag-uh-bond |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvæg əˌbɒnd |
Definition of vagabond
Origin :- early 15c. (earlier vacabond, c.1400), from Middle French vagabonde, from Late Latin vagabundus "wandering, strolling about," from Latin vagari "wander" (from vagus "wandering, undecided;" see vague) + gerundive suffix -bundus. The noun is first recorded c.1400, earlier wagabund (c.1300).
- adj unsettled; vagrant
- noun person who leads an unsettled life; traveler
- No vagabond I had ever known ignored time and duty more complacently.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Bless the place, I love the ashes of the vagabond fires that have scorched its grass!
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- He had entered the shop at eight o'clock that morning a blackguard as well as a vagabond.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- He was a vagabond and an outcast, and scenes of horror were not new to him.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- Before he went, he explained the mechanism of the Vagabond thoroughly to his friends.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- I couldn't wait for you two, the Vagabond would have been a little pile of ashes.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- May the Devil scorch that vagabond, if he doesn't do better than the last time!
- Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
- But how, then, did the vagabond users of 'flash' language get hold of this word?
- Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
- He has made the satrap, as you see, a fugitive and a vagabond in his own vast territory.
- Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
- "Then Findelkind was a rogue and a vagabond," said the taker of tolls.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 » by Various
Synonyms for vagabond
- aimless
- destitute
- down-and-out
- drifting
- errant
- explorer
- fancy-free
- fly-by-night
- footloose
- gypsy
- haji
- idle
- itinerant
- itinerate
- journeying
- mendicant
- migratory
- moving
- nomadic
- pathfinder
- perambulant
- perambulatory
- peripatetic
- pilgrim
- pioneer
- prodigal
- rambler
- rambling
- roaming
- rootless
- rover
- roving
- sauntering
- shifting
- shiftless
- straggling
- stray
- strolling
- tourist
- trailblazer
- transient
- travelling
- trekker
- unsettled
- wanderer
- wandering
- wayfarer
- wayfaring
- wayward
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