Thesaurus:vagabond
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: person without a fixed dwelling and usually without a steady livelihood edit
Synonyms edit
- bum
- casual (Britain, dated)
- clochard (especially in France)
- derelict
- dero
- down-and-out
- down-and-outer
- drifter
- epithite (obsolete)
- floater
- gadling
- hobo
- Jack out of doors (obsolete)
- knight of the road (obsolete)
- landleaper
- landloper
- landlouper
- nomad
- paker (obsolete)
- palliard (archaic)
- pike
- piker
- ranger
- rogue
- rolling stone
- rough sleeper (Britain)
- scatterling (obsolete)
- skelder (obsolete)
- skell
- stroller
- stumblebum
- swagman
- swaggie
- toerag
- tramp
- truant (obsolete)
- vagabond
- vagrant
- wanderer [⇒ thesaurus]
- waif
- yagger (Scotland, archaic)
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- dimber damber
- solivagant
- sturdy beggar (Britain, historical)
- upright man
- Children
- gamin
- gamine
- guttersnipe (derogatory)
- street child
- street urchin
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “268. traveller” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “876. commonalty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “vagabond” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.