Nomad means wandering or roaming. The nomad tribe roamed the desert.
They were nomadic. Nomadic means that they continuously migrated.
The word "nomadic" has three syllables.
nomad means wanderer, traveler, drifter. The opposite would be resident, settled, permanent, established...bruh💁
The word "nomadic" doesn't contain a prefix. It's from the Greek word nomas, nomados meaning "pastoral." It does contain a suffix, "-ic" from the Latin -icus meaning "having to do with; characterized by."The word "nomadic" can be used with a prefix, as in the word "seminomadic."
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The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that 'nomad' comes from a Greek word [nemo] which means to pasture.A nomad travels to wherever he can pasture his herds.
Nomadic means wandering. Nomads or nomadic people are groups that do not settle in one place permanently, but periodically move from place to place.
There is no true antonym of the English noun nomad however a word to describe someone who is not nomadic would be settler.
Nomadic thus means anything that involves moving around a lot. Nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes follow the animals they hunt, carrying tents with them. You don't have to be a nomad to live a nomadic lifestyle.
Nomadic means to roam, so the opposite would be stable, or to stay put (reside) in one place.
Nomadic herders roam with their animals to where the greenest grass and the most water is.