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vagrant

 
Dictionary: va·grant   ('grənt) pronunciation
n.
  1. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
  2. A wanderer; a rover.
  3. One who lives on the streets and constitutes a public nuisance.
adj.
  1. Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support.
  2. Wayward; unrestrained: a vagrant impulse.
  3. Moving in a random fashion; not fixed in place: "Thanks to a vagrant current of the Gulf Stream, a stretch of the Kola coast is free of ice year round" (Jack Beatty).

[Middle English vagraunt, probably alteration of Old French wacrant, present participle of wacrer, to wander, of Germanic origin.]

vagrantly va'grant·ly adv.

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adjective

    Leading the life of a person without a fixed domicile; moving from place to place: itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, vagabond. See move/halt.

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IN BRIEF: A person who wanders from place to place and often begging.

pronunciation I felt a little bit like a vagrant when my car broke down in the unfamiliar town.

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A vagrant in a dream may indicate that the dreamer desires to escape from the confines of social expectations. Likewise, the dreamer could also be worried about becoming a vagrant if they can no longer keep up with their bills.


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - vagabond, omstrejfer
adj. - omstrejfende, vandrende, omflakkende

Nederlands (Dutch)
landloper, zwerver, dwalend

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Jur) vagabond
adj. - (gén, Jur) vagabond

Deutsch (German)
n. - Landstreicher, Stadtstreicher
adj. - vagabundierend

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανέστιος, περιπλανώμενος, αλήτης, πλάνης
adj. - περιπλανώμενος, πλανόδιος

Italiano (Italian)
vagabondo, SDF, nomade, errante, randagio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vadio (m), andarilho (m)
adj. - vagabundo, errante, caprichoso

Русский (Russian)
бродяга, странник, бродячий, изменчивый

Español (Spanish)
n. - vagabundo, vago
adj. - vagabundo, vagaroso, errante

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - luffare, lösdrivare
adj. - kringflackande, irrande, ostadig, lös, vildvuxen

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
流浪汉, 无赖, 漂泊者, 漂泊的, 游荡的, 流浪的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 流浪漢, 無賴, 漂泊者
adj. - 漂泊的, 遊蕩的, 流浪的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 방랑자, 정처 없는 사람, 부랑자
adj. - 방랑하는, 주거 부정의, 걷잡을 수 없는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 放浪の, 放浪する, 気まぐれな, 変わりやすい
n. - 放浪者, 住所不定者

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) متشرد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נווד, שוטטן‬
adj. - ‮נע ונד, שוטטני‬


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